Quotes About Politeness

I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.

Argument should be polite as well as logical.

The path of Martial Arts begins and ends with courtesy. So be genuinely polite on every occasion.

The ultimate politeness in art consists of speaking only to those who are able to uncover and measure its relationships. Anything else is symbolic, and symbolism is merely transcendental imagery.

Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.

And even under extreme tension, which he had been under, too, he had been polite, considerate, respectful, and kind at all times.

It's probably polite to pretend you don't see people coming out of pawnshops, anyhow.

The boy spoke two words, the first a short guttural verb, the second "you." "People lose teeth talking like that." Spade's voice was still amiable though his face had become wooden. "If you want to hang around you'll be polite." The boy repeated his two words.

Molly squeaked and clicked (the clicks were the hardest) something back, which she hoped was "Hello." What she actually said was "My teeth are green," but the porpoise was too polite to point that out.

I was always unfailingly polite to Ladon-Tosh. I didn't care if he never looked at me or spoke to me. I just wanted him to know that he had a friend in me.

You'd be doing us both a favor.' 'This drives me bats. You know this drives me bats.' Orin and Hal's term for this routine is Politeness Roulette. This Moms-thing that makes you hate yourself for telling her the truth about any kind of problem because of what the consequences will be for her. It's like to report any sort of need or problem is to mug her.

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name. A polite public will no more bear to read an authentic description of vice than a truly-refined English or American female will permit the word 'breeches' to be pronounced in her chaste hearing. And yet, madam, both are walking the world before our faces every day without much shocking us. If you were to blush every time they went by, what complexions you would have!

When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.

Essere gentili è il dovere di ogni inglese che si rispetti.

If you are going to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite. ***

Fryderyk najuprzejmiej gaw?dzi? z pani? Mari? — czy jednak podtrzymywa? rozmow? aby czego? innego nie powiedzie??

Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but not thank you?

Don't you bully me with your politeness!

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

Sorry is what the English say when they don't know what to say.

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.

Locke brings me a thimbleful of liquor, and I take a tiny scalding sip for the sake of politeness. I start coughing immediately. At that moment, Cardan's gaze goes to me. His eyes are barely open, but I can see the shine of them, wet as tar. He watches me as the girl kisses his mouth, watches me as she slides her hand beneath the hem of his silly, ruffly shirt.

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.