Quotes About Politeness

Our pride will lead us to perish, but our politeness keeps us alive.

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.

I am the common man. I'm polite, I love my family and I play by the rules. And sometimes I get pushed around. That's my lifestyle, and that's what I try to bring to characters.

I love to see a dedicated, loyal and a polite fans!

There is a politeness of the heart; this is closely allied to love.

Never say sorry as a greeting

Sabeth listened when I told her about my experiences, but as one listens to an old man; without interrupting, politely, without believing, without getting excited.

And generally, when people say good night, they keep their tongues to themselves.

We can go in like we were invited. Too bad we didn't bring that bottle of sparkling wine. It would have been a nice hostess gift, to throw them off. Jesse pulled into a space as close as he could get to the house, though we were still going to be soaked as we made our way in. That's one of the many things I love about you, Susannah, he said. You're always so polite to the parents of the kids you've unintentionally set up to be murdered. It's just the way I was raised.

Even before I recognized him, I smiled politely. Well trained, I would have smiled so at my executioner.

Oh, thank you, young man!" one of the women said. Her glasses made her eyes look gigantic. "Chivalry still exists in this day and age. See, Flo? What a gentleman.

Americans are incredibly polite as long as they get what they want.

They want words. They want contact. They want pictures and autographs. Americans are incredibly polite as long as they get what they want.

The need of politeness is at its maximum in speaking with foreigners, and is so irksome as to be paralysing to those who are only accustomed to compatriots.

I'm about to enroll you in a class with Miss Manners. You'd qualify for a scholarship." "I'll

Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.

Civility is not simply about manners.

How better to show your respect for another person's thoughts than by silence? Is it polite to cover those thoughts with your own ideas? What is polite about that?

No race on earth is as clever at being strangers as the British. They wrap themselves in formality, they withdraw behind veil after veil of exquisite politeness, they hide cunningly behind a bewildering array of carefully chosen façades—

The trouble with us is that we've been too polite with each other.

And the name of the one shall be Fearfulness. And the name of the other shall be Arrogance... Well, clearly you are not Fearfulness, so I suppose you must be Arrogance.' This was not very polite.

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.

Someone in Dr. Morse's childhood must've told him that the polite thing to do to get by in the world (in his world) was to memorize one fact and one fact only about each of your colleague's family members, so that when you met that colleague, or met their family members, you could, by mentioning this fact, appear solicitous and engaged.

She gathered wild greens and berries while he prepared the rest of supper. They ate largely in silence except for her praise of the fish and a brief discussion about how to catch the best trout. She favored nets, he preferred lines.It was all very polite.