Quotes About Politeness

I myself shall be elsewhere this evening, visiting with the Lady Madigan, Marchess of the Pike—one of the few folk in this city worth the time—and would have invited you with me . . . But no matter.

As far as I have been able to understand, the Japanese seem to keep things close to the vest. Friendly but remote and polite to the point of being invisible. It is in the music, literature, film and art that the Japanese really seem to express themselves.

I'm so British and polite that creating a scene or being confrontational is so not my vibe.

In the contemporary world, we think of politeness as surface behavior, like frosting - it's sweet and attractive and finishes off the cake. But 19th century nobility and the enlightened thinkers and stoics before them viewed manners in a very different way. To them, manners are an outward expression of an inward struggle.

I've always thought there was a fair amount of dishonesty involved in politeness.

David Spellman was born perfect. Eight pounds even, with a full head of hair and unblemished skin, he cried for a brief moment right after his birth (to let the doctor know he was breathing), then stopped abruptly, probably out of politeness.

Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.

Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world.

Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately.

Courts are, unquestionably, the seats of politeness and good breeding; were they not so, they would be the seats of slaughter and desolation. Those who now smile upon and embrace, would affront and stab, each other, if manners did not interpose.

Sikap yang santun harus menghiasi orang yang berpengetahuan dan melicinkan jalannya dalam pergaulan.

Me and polite have never been on close terms.

Right,' Thomas said. 'Where are we headed?' 'To where they treat me like royalty,' I said. 'We're going to Burger King?' I rubbed the heel of my hand against my forehead and spelled fratricide in a subvocal mutter, but I had to spell out temporary insanity and justifiable homicide, too, before I calmed down enough to speak politely. 'Just take a left and drive. Please.' 'Well,' Thomas said, grinning, 'since you said 'please' - Thomas Raith & Harry Dresden, Small Favor, Jim Butcher

For me chivalry isn't dead; it's an involuntary reflex.

You know, it wouldn't kill you to be a little more polite." "Why take chances," I muttered

I remember very little of my father, but one thing I do remember is him telling me always to be polite. It costs you nothing but breath, and can buy you as much as your life.

You know, it wouldn't kill you to be a little more polite." "Why take chances

her neat sweet features fixed in a small smile of polite wariness.

Polite contempt. The barbed and poisonous weapon of the righteous.

No one looks at us. We might as well be invisible; or clothing marks us as strangers, transients. They are polite, so polite; no one stares at us.

That moment when someone bumps into you and doesn't say excuse me or sorry.

Being immature and rude gets you nowhere, being nice gets you no where.

I aint like his a.. anyway, I was just being nice...