Quotes About Politeness

The best advice for dealing with cats is: Always greet them politely. Don't make an unnecessary fuss over them. Be on the alert for signs they want to communicate with you. Never, ever laugh at them! If you're lucky, you might just find that your cat will decide that you are a magical person worthy of attention. Or then again, maybe they'd just like some fish.

It was a very powerful politeness.

Politeness. Being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else.

Politeness. Now, there's a poor man's virtue if ever there was one. What's so admirable about inoffensiveness, I should like to know. After all, it's easily achieved. One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else. People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think about them.

gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

Children must not stare at their elders," he said. "That is ill-bred." "Huh?" both of them asked. What's "stare," they wondered; "elders"; "ill-bred"? "Say, 'Sir,' or 'I beg your pardon, Father.' " "Sir?" Rufus said. "You," Father Jackson said to Catherine. "Sir?" Catherine said. "You must not stare at people—look at them, as you are looking at me.

Politeness is the enemy of both Art and Criticism. It tries to color true perception, dilute strong emotion, and replace genuine compassion. To pursue bad manners is childish, to pursue good ones is emasculation.

It's hard to say no to a grown-up lady who smiles at you.

Truly good manners are invisible: they ease the way for others, without drawing attention to themselves. It is no accident that the word "punctilious" ("attentive to formality or etiquette") comes from the same original root as punctuation.

Your first reaction is the characteristic one of your contrasuggestible century: to disbelieve, to disprove. I see this very clearly underneath your politeness.

It wouldn't pay to get fresh with a missionary.

Gant abruptly stood and said, "Thank you for your time, Mr. Koane. I'll see myself out.

If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him by asking?

THERE'S NO NEED TO BE CRUDE,' said Owen Meany.

Listen, Jaye. When a man of advancing years tells you something is true, either believe him, or nod politely. The last thing you want to do is shake his faith in his omniscience. – Varner Hilts

Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect a character from posterity.

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

Treat everyone with politeness even those who are very rude to you, not because they are nice, but because you are

Being nice to someone you have an issue with doesn't mean you are fake...it means someone taught you how to be polite.

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.

Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you - not because they are nice, but because you are.

He was unfailingly polite, offering food and wine, a bedroll, but he did not linger. What did I expect? I had loosed my wrath on him as if I were my father. One more thing that I had ruined.

Lady," he said, "I am sorry to trouble you." "You have not been trouble yet," I said.

My dear Madame, I just noticed that I forgot my cane at your house yesterday; please be good enough to give it to the bearer of this letter. P.S. Kindly pardon me for disturbing you; I just found my cane.