Quotes About Politeness

Savez-vous, monsieur le marquis de Rastignacorama, que ce que vous me dites n'est pas exactement poli

Ne pas écouter est non seulement un manque de politesse, mais encore une marque de mépris. Rien ne rapporte plus dans le commerce du monde que l'aumône de l'attention. À bon entendeur salut !

she was remembering what it was like when you broke up with someone. Conversations became so hopelessly tangled. You had to be polite and precise. You couldn't safely criticize anymore, because you didn't have the right. You'd lost your immunity.

A thank-you card," repeated Alice. "Yes. I know, I know, it's teaching them good manners and everything, but I sort of hate those thank-you cards. I always imagine the kids groaning and having to be forced into writing them. It makes me feel like an elderly aunt.

Everyone seemed to be deliberately not looking at her, the way people did when you had food in your teeth and they didn't want to tell you, so they kept trying not to see.

But Napoleon was deeply respectful of road signs and tiny clauses on bureaucratic forms. For him, rules were about politeness and respect and ensuring the survival of a civilized society.

It is so strange that you can end up having such polite, awkward conversations with somebody with whom you once shared such intimate moments.

You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

I stood up, too. I felt like I should say something polite to the two feds, but nothing came to me that didn't make me sound like a puerile lick-spittle, so I just nodded and turned for the door.

Jackie smiled graciously and did her part, the noblesse oblige she had talked about. I almost wished she'd been rude to them, since I had to hold the elevator door open for a long minute while she signed one of the briefcases with a Magic Marker. There were distant chimes, indicating that somebody else wanted the elevator, and the door kept thumping me as it tried to close and answer the call.

If I had a family crest, it would read Please Don't Make Me Be an Asshole.

We had just commenced the third course—the bread and jam—when a gentleman in shirt-sleeves and a short pipe came along, and wanted to know if we knew that we were trespassing. We said we hadn't given the matter sufficient consideration as yet to enable us to arrive at a definite conclusion on that point, but that, if he assured us on his word as a gentleman that we were trespassing, we would, without further hesitation, believe it.

A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion

Teach children to be polite and courteous in the home, and, when he grows up, he will never be able to edge his car onto a freeway.

Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can't pass one person.

Ms. Connell sighs because wealth does not equate to good manners.

The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did.

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

Are you out of your mind?" It's not polite to lie to your best friend. "It's a possibility.

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.

Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business.

Nothing good was ever learned from eavesdropping, so mind your business and let others mind theirs.

All Butcher's previous politeness was revealed as so much bad milk floating in a cup of welcome tea...