Quotes about politeness
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Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately. Lord Chesterfield
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He met me with politeness and dignity, ... Turning to the officers at the table, he remarked: 'General Wallace, it is not necessary to introduce you to these gentlemen; you are acquainted with them all.' Lew Wallace
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Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense. Sydney Smith
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Of all that gives politeness birth,Of all that claims to please,In motion, manners, or in mirth,The surest source is ease. William Shenstone
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Of all that gives politeness birth, Of all that claims to please, In motion, manners, or in mirth, The surest source is ease.
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They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness. Edmund Wilson
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I do not want to be a robot, a cog in society who answers 'yes' because 'yes' is considered the appropriate answer. Neither do I want to be a protestor. I just want to seek out what lies underneath the veils of politeness and programming that I've been given as a person in this society. Damien Rice
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The list of my favorite experiences would almost equal the list of plays I've been in. There are a few exceptions, but out of politeness I'm not going to mention them. If you don't have a few stinkers, you can't appreciate the good ones. T. R. Knight
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Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.
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Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.
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Politeness is, you know, is a wonderful thing. Manners are in fact, really important thing. But remember, Jesus didn't have many manners as we now know. Bono
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You've gotta be very careful that grace and politeness do not merge into a banality of behavior, where we're just nice, sort of 'death by cupcake.'
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Politeness is the chief sign of culture. Baltasar Gracian
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There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude, Daniel Dennett
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While there are certain social graces or politeness which involve not hurting another's feelings ? if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all ? it is very confusing to children. The whole issue of honesty can be very frustrating for parents to teach.
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There is a certain challenge to directing an older play. In the '50s, there was a politeness that doesn't exist anymore. For instance, the language is more polite than we would perhaps have today. The challenge is to bring out the emotional depth that exists under that surface. Rick Snyder
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Gentleness is the great point to be obtained in the study of manners. Nathaniel Parker Willis
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He is the very pineapple of politeness. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Don't mistake politeness for lack of strength. Sonia Sotomayor
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Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things. Thomas B. Macaulay
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Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused. Tommy Lee Jones
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Politeness is deception in pretty packaging. Veronica Roth
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Politeness is fictitious benevolence. Samuel Johnson
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Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss.
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Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within. Jean de la Bruyere
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Politeness smooths wrinkles. Joseph Joubert
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In nothing do we fail more, as a Mission, than in lack of tact and politeness. Hudson Taylor
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Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul. Honore de Balzac
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There's a sort of politeness and a little bit of a distance or reserve that's characteristic of a lot of people in the area that's oddly punctuated by these horrible, heinous crimes that you hear about more frequently than you think. Ethan Coen
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There is nothing costs less than civility. Miguel de Cervantes
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such is the effect of true politeness, that it banishes all restraint and embarassment. Fanny Burney
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Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Politeness of mind consists in thinking chaste and refined thoughts.