Quotes About Politeness

I hate being the only mortal in a gathering full of Immortals who think killing each other cleverly is the height of good manners.

Manners,[...] are severely underappreciated in my opinion". "Oh?" "Where practiced well, they remove the probability that someone in my position will be forced to go through the effort of killing someone in yours. Believe that on occasion that much death can become tedious.

A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.

Says the rude child: "No, I won't do it." Says the courteous grown-up: "Yes, I won't do it."

A kind soul knows impoliteness is just preoccupied with distraction.

My friend, we are not dressed for going into town," I insisted, heading him off in another direction. "Why?" asked Insel in bewildered politeness. "You look as lovely as you always do.

For heaven's sake, if you don't know someone's name, just pretend you do. Do that thing everyone else does, where you vaguely say, "Nice to see you!" and make weak eye contact.

The reason I pull Irish exits is not because I think I'm too busy and cool to be bothered with pleasantries. It's that when there is a gathering of more than thirty people I don't want to waste your time with hellos and good-byes. I think it's actually the more polite thing to do, because I'm not coercing partygoers into some big farewell moment with me. Then other people feel like they have to stop what they're doing and hug me, too. It's time-wasting dominoes.

The reason I pull Irish exits is not because I think I'm too busy and cool to be bothered with pleasantries. It's that when there is a gathering of more than thirty people I don't want to waste your time with hellos and good-byes. I think it's actually the more polite thing to do, because I'm not coercing partygoers into some big farewell moment with me.

And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it's third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, it's much more polite.

Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.

1. Death has depreciated, it has become a formality and politeness. 2. Love is a hormonal fantasy of passion, over time it turns into fidelity. 3. Love is libido, testosterone, potency. When everything dries up, only loyalty remains.

1. Diplomacy is the mercenary politeness of manipulators, modern culture consists of greedy hypocrisy, cynical myopia who value bad taste, obeying the herd instinct. The two-faced modern culture of politeness is a parody of indifference. Officially polite, but swearing in person, modern culture is a ghetto. 2. Pick the nerves of anger with a knife, there must be somewhere to switch from a lie to a state of truth. Author: Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

Diplomacy is the mercenary politeness of manipulators, modern culture consists of greedy hypocrisy, cynical myopia who value bad taste and obey herd instinct. The two-faced modern culture of politeness is a parody of indifference. Officially polite, but swearing in person, modern culture is a ghetto.

The karmic web of life is an energetic web of empathy, like a web of socialization, where hypocrisy is like a formal politeness of two-faced indifference.

I didn't realize," she said in a voice so polite it drew blood, "that fawning over you was part of the job requirement.

Politeness is a good thing; it works to keep people onside, keep them talking- and keep them from looking too deep. People tell me all kinds of things because I'm polite and empathic. Dr. Jitrnicka tells me it's a controlling tactic because I do it will so much self-awareness.

Certainly, it is importat to be polite, and nobody should think that using racial or ethnic slurs is acceptable. But political correctness has morphed from a desire to avoid needlessly offending people to a tool of the Left to marginalize and vilify resonable Americans who disagree with the elite liberal agenda.

Humans are social primates, and socialising with the rest of our species requires a fair amount of routine self-censorship and outright lying, which we dignify with names such as 'tact', 'courtesy' and 'politeness'.

The question of how one survived is simply not asked. It is not polite. How one survived is best not discussed.

Women, in short, have been trained to believe that they're not allowed to be angry." "Trained," Katherine said loudly. "You're always talking about training, like we're dogs or something." "It's not polite to raise your voice," I said, and she immediately hunched and blushed. Suze frowned. "Don't frown," I said to her, "you'll get wrinkles." Silence.

It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.

the ladies of N. were pre-eminently careful and refined in their choice of words and phrases. Never did a lady say, "I blew my nose," or "I perspired," or "I spat." No, it had to be, "I relieved my nose through the expedient of wiping it with my handkerchief," and so forth.

Would you like a tuna-salad sandwich?' 'Yes,' God said. 'Thank you.