Quotes About Politeness

In the end Alicia had accepted that heavy piece as she done with so many of Leandro's offerings, in a tacit agreement of submission and pretense, where the unmentionable was sealed with a cold smile of politeness and a veil of silence

Pasamos la vida como dos extraños que se han visto todos los días y se saludan por cortesía.

His eyes gave off an air of bravado and arrogance, of disdain and sugary politeness. Julián smiled at him openly, reading insecurity, fear, and emptiness under that shell of vanity and complacency.

Almost everyone agrees with her. However much they look into her eyes and think she is uttering mere niceties, they are sworn to that ultimate courtesy, which is to believe what people want us to believe. And thus, when Mrs. Willow bids them good afternoon, they courteously rise to their feet. "Good afternoon," they smile back, shaking hands carefully, and postponing their slow, rhythmic applause and the smashing of the teacups.

We had come here to have a break from thoughts and the hard work that came with the constant interaction with idiots. Or at least people we considered idiots because they were not mind readers and we had to, patiently, use polite words to explain things that we were thinking when really inside we were fighting the urge to take their heads in our hands and softly and repeatedly thud their foreheads off the wall.

There's not much I dislike more than being addressed as Hey you and being poked with a finger.

But in my book, it was basically bad taste to stare at someone's assets, no matter how much on display they were.

The southern standard of niceness was this: You'd never been convicted of anything, you didn't look at other's women's husbands too openly. You wrote your thank-you notes and were polite to your elders. You had to take a keen interest in your children's upbringing. And you made sure your family was fed adequately. There were sideways and byways in this "nice" thing, but those were the general have-tos.

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

I hold the door for the ladies - I'm a gent.

The more you act like a lady, the more he'll act like a gentleman.

My philosophy is that one must always give a lady what she wants. That never goes out of style.

Culture makes all men gentle.

I would not have had that happen to you. Discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me.

Discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

That regales," he said. "Won't you have more?

The greatest politeness is free of all formality. Perfect conduct Is free of concern. Perfect wisdom is unplanned. Perfect love is without demonstrations. Perfect sincerity offers No guarantee.

Eleven o'clock. A knock at the door... I hope I haven't disturbed you, madam. You weren't asleep—were you? But I've just given my lady

Never say no to a cup of tea and never pass up the chance to use the toilet was her sage advice.

Madame, may I see your dog's chit, please

Be ever courteous should the case allow--sweet malt is ever made by gentle fire.

Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.

But it was this very politeness that finally first began to grate upon my nerves, and hen to cause despair to rise up within my throat and threaten to choke me. For, no matter how smooth and correct the words issuing from the courtiers' mouths were, they couldn't quite hide the scorn or laughter in their eyes. And so, on the night of my sixteenth birthday, I saw myself as they saw me for the very first time.