Quotes About Politeness

My mother had that talent for endowing any place she was with dignity and charm. She behaved elegantly and politely, and thus hoped to change the world.

It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude.

Now as to politeness... I would venture to call it benevolence in trifles.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred in the company.

It does not matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you do not do it in the street and frighten the horses.

(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach.

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.

If a man didn't make sense, the Scotch felt it was misplaced politeness to try to keep him from knowing it. Better that he be aware of his reputation, for this would encourage reticence which goes well with stupidity.

A man must have very eminent qualities to hold his own without being polite.

There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be only to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

A true gentlemen is one who is never unintentionally rude.

Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.

Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

The audience was swell. They were so polite they covered their mouths when they yawned.

The best way to save face is keep the bottom half shut.

Perhaps if you address the lady Most politely, most politely, Flatter and impress the lady Most politely, most politely, Humbly beg and humbly sue, She may deign to look on you.

Courtesy is a little thing that makes a big difference.

How's it going down there? It's weird. They're too polite, they talk funny, and stuff has too much shine on it. But the coffee's worse than Central's, so that's something.

So funktioniert Höflichkeit. Man pflegt Beziehungen mit Leuten, auch wenn man sie nicht mag.

Podríamos dejar que este intercambio de cortesías de rigor fallezca de muerte natural?

If you're going to bloody the human, would you be good enough to do it in the backyard?