Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best thing in the world either to get a good name, or to supply the want of it.
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Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
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The ability to compromise is not a diplomatic politeness toward a partner but rather taking into account and respecting your partner's legitimate interests.
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Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not be polite to show one's wit.
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Politeness costs nothing. Nothing, that is, to him that shows it; but if often costs the world very dear.
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Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
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The only true source of politeness is consideration.
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There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.
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Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.
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A good name is better than bags of gold.
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Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
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What is politeness in the home but the outcome of affection and self-respect, and the suppression of all those natural instincts of self-seeking that, allowed their way, produce the worst manners in the world?
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Lively, intelligent, and quite immature, Emily usually burst out with exactly the comment that summed up the situation beautifully and therefore could never in politeness be said.
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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In the actual state of social relationships, the forms ("formes", Fr.) of politeness are necessary as a subsitute to benevolence.
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Bowing, ceremonious, formal compliments, stiff civilities, will never be politeness; that must be easy, natural, unstudied; and what will give this but a mind benevolent and attentive to exert that amiable disposition in trifles to all you converse and live with?
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The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
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Every month brings pleasure bright If the heart is only right.
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Pity is extolled as the virtue of prostitutes.
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Among the most disheartening and dangerous of . . . advisors, you will often find those closest to you, your dearest friends, members of your own family, perhaps, loving, anxious, and knowing nothing whatever . . .
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In the soul one part naturally rules, and the other is subject, and the virtue of the ruler we maintain to be different from that of the subject; the one being the virtue of the rational, and the other of the irrational part. Now, it is obvious that the same principle applies generally, and therefore almost all things rule and are ruled according to nature.
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Freedom is secured not by the fulfillment of one's desires, but by the removal of desire.
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There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best thing in the world either to get a good name, or to supply the want of it.
