Quotes About Politeness

That didn't reassure me much; Alphonse's idea of good manners consisted of remembering to bury all the bodies.

I wasn't entirely sure, but a polite John Pritkin might be a sign of the apocalypse.

God Said: Let there be light! I said: Say please.

I think dating courtesies are common courtesies that should be practiced in most all civilized encounters. I pine for the days of good, old-fashioned manners.

We call them taxis where I come from. And bookstores." God, he was stuffy. "We call them manners where I come from, Ms. Lane. Have you any?

He was intelligent and healthy, but decent to a point that crippled him as a master of his home or an accumulator of wealth. Madelaine had once characterized him as standing on the edge of the mainstream of life, smiling and saying, "Pardon me," "After you,"and "No, thank you.

Be polite, be kind, but be firm if you are clear that the idea in question will deplete you. Your ability to say no without justifying your decisions might be one of the least developed but most powerful tools women can learn.

when the English say 'Oh really? How interesting!' they might well mean 'I don't believe a word of it, you lying toad'. Or they might not. They might just mean 'I'm bored and not really listening but trying to be polite'. Or they might be genuinely surprised and truly interested. You'll never know.

When the priest says 'Lord, have mercy upon us', you do not respond 'Well, actually, why should he?' You intone dutifully, 'Christ, have mercy upon us.' In the same way, it would be very rude to respond to 'Ooh, isn't it cold?' with 'No, actually, it's quite mild.

You can't sneeze in Dublin without somebody saying 'God bless you' in Kerry.

It is just as easy to be polite as to be rude, and men are served better for love than for fear.

A.J. nods out of politeness, but he doesn't believe in random acts. He is a reader, and what he believes in is narrative construction. If a gun appears in act one, that gun had better go off by act three.

A.J. nods out of politeness, but he doesn't believe in random acts. He is a reader, and what he believes in is narrative construction. If a gun appears in act one, that gun had better go off by act three. "Maybe

Librarians, Dusty, possess a vast store of politeness. These are people who get asked regularly the dumbest questions on God's green earth. These people tolerate every kind of crank and eccentric and mouth breather there is.

I'm always putting my foot in my mouth. I met this woman recently, and I could have sworn she was pregnant. I think the rule is don't guess at that ever, ever, ever.

A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.

Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations.

No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy.

Most of us are ready to greet our worst enemies like long-lost brothers if we think they can show us a good time, if we think they can do us any good or if we even reach the conclusion that being polite will get us just as far and help us live longer.

the king of kind hearts and polite fellows

Political correctness is what right-wing bigots call what everybody else calls being polite

Politeness, I learned at her salon, is a demanding discipline; to convince others without recourse to the tricks of the demagogue or bully requires a high level of intelligence, especially when the audience is learned and intelligent.

America's a civilized country. More or less.

His anger stirred her own and she suddenly thought she understood their problem: they were too polite, too constrained, too timorous, they went around each other on tiptoes, murmuring, whispering, deferring, agreeing. They barely knew each other and never could because of the blanket of companionable near-silence that smothered their differences and blinded them as much as it bound them.