Quotes About Politeness

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any

You want respect? Treat others with respect.

It was a pleasure when a person remembered that good manners cost fuck-all, and it went a long way.

No one, no matter who they are, is above common courtesy. Remember that,

In a society that valued politeness over truth, where malice and subterfuge were commonplace, even accepted, Lily's frankness was labeled an eccentricity of her "condition.

Close your mouth, Michael; we are not a codfish.

Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.

Politeness is one half good nature and the other half good lying.

Jei per ilgai lauksi - teks ištarti "sudie" dar nepasakius "laba diena".

Höflichkeit ist oft Angst, Liebenswürdigkeit ist immer Mut. Aber es ist das Mitgefühl, das dich menschlich macht. Hab mehr Mitgefühl, und du wirst menschlicher.

Politeness is often fear. Kindness is always courage. But caring is what makes you human. Care more, become more human

a classic example of Robert Heinlein's famous saying, that an armed society is a polite society.

A talent for forgetting is necessary to maintain civility.

Sometimes in life, it doesn't matter that you've just woken up on a floor. Or that you haven't brushed your teeth. Or that your hair is a mess and you're wearing the clothes you slept in. Sometimes you just have to be polite.

Whoever one is, and wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude.

An English gentleman is someone who knows exactly when to stop being one.

the Please was more like a command than a request

And then he perceived her politeness or kindness or even her vague responsiveness as interest,

Good manners open the closed doors; bad manners close the open doors!

How unladylike of you to mention such a thing.

He certainly seemed to have all the qualities of a gentleman, but the interesting kind who knows exactly when to stop behaving like one.

You get respect when you give respect. That's how you get respect.

Only occasionally can you glimpse through the embrasures of an otherwise perfectly polite person to see the cannons aimed out, only in a certain glint of light do the eyeteeth become fangs. We are driven by desire and fear. Only in our solitary hungers do we find ourselves capable of the most magnificently unexpected sins.

Wiem, co nale?y robi?, ?eby uchodzi? za cz?owieka mi?ego; nie jestem idiot?. Tyle ?e nie mam na to ochoty.