Quotes About Politeness

You need not to love everyone, but you need to be polite with everyone, people will appreciate your politeness more than your love, because politeness is sweeter than love.

Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.

True power and true politeness are above vanity.

The only true source of politeness is consideration.

And are even quite polite, at first, as they discuss whose name exactly it was their son had just said.

Dictionary Definition of Delicacy 1. The quality or condition of being delicate, fragile, or sensitive. 2. Discretion, tact.

When you ask someone to pass the salt, you are also giving them an order; by attaching the word "please", you are saying that it is not an order. But, in fact, it is.

He was not what gentlemen usually thought a gentleman was.

If you don't respect me you're not gonna get that respect back.

Among well bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his turn; and an easy stream of conversation maintained without vehemence, without interruption, without eagerness for victory, and without any airs of superiority.

Don't make jokes about food.

saying "Bonjour, madame" when walking into the boulangerie to pick up your baguette, or beginning a request with "Excusez-moi de vous déranger"—"I'm sorry to bother you"—leading off with an apology, letting a salesclerk or receptionist know that you recognize their importance

Be polite, be professional, but have a plan

It would be nice if people said, God bless you not just when you sneezed but also when you farted.

I only asked my friends to be friendly and polite, I found them indifferent and censorious; The one I left to silence, the other to reproach: God send me over all such friends victorious.

God," I moaned. "Do they use that stuff as rocket fuel?" "No one made you keep drinking it." "Hey, don't get preachy. Besides, I had to be polite." "Sure," she said.

Now I don't have anything against Mexican people, but for God's sakes, sign the gust book on the way in.

Of courtesy, it is much less Than courage of heart or holiness, Yet in my walks it seems to me That the Grace of God is in courtesy.

God Said: Let there be light! I said: Say please.

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

The sign of a person who has had an education is good manners.

Good-breeding is the art of showing men, by external signs, the internal regard we have for them. It arises from good sense, improved by conversing with good company.

You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.

Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.