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.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

• Politeness
• Good Name
• Good Manners

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• Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Art
  • Thoughts
  • Politeness

• The ability to compromise is not a diplomatic politeness toward a partner but rather taking into account and respecting your partner's legitimate interests.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Interest
  • Ability
  • Compromise

• 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.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Society
  • Wit
  • Politeness

• Politeness costs nothing. Nothing, that is, to him that shows it; but if often costs the world very dear.

  

  William Allingham
  • World
  • Dear
  • Politeness

• Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Soul
  • Virtue
  • Politeness

• The only true source of politeness is consideration.

  

  William Gilmore Simms
  • Source
  • Consideration
  • Polite

• There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Acquire
  • Politeness
  • Profitable

• Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Discipline
  • Music Is
  • Reasonable

• A good name is better than bags of gold.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Gold
  • Bags
  • Good Name

• 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.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Art
  • Converse
  • Good Manners

• 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?

  

  Humphry Davy
  • Manners
  • Self-respect
  • Politeness

• 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.

  

  Clare B. Dunkle
  • Intelligent
  • Situation
  • Comment

• It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.

  

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
  • Wise
  • Friendship
  • Politeness

• In the actual state of social relationships, the forms ("formes", Fr.) of politeness are necessary as a subsitute to benevolence.

  

  African Spir
  • Relationships
  • Benevolence
  • Politeness

• 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?

  

  William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
  • Compliment
  • Disposition
  • Politeness

• The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • People
  • Man
  • Sports

• Every month brings pleasure bright If the heart is only right.

  

  Palmer Cox
  • Heart

• Pity is extolled as the virtue of prostitutes.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Virtue
  • Pity
  • Prostitutes

• But if at church they would give some ale. And a pleasant fire our souls to regale. We'd sing and we'd pray all the live long day, Nor ever once from the church to stray.

  

  William Blake
  • Church
  • Souls
  • Pray

• I always had a kind of strange relationship with New York City, with total love affair in the beginning then retreat during the kind of conservatives of politics and real estate and business came, and then I am again kind of fighting for the justice to the city, to open the city for the artists.

  

  Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • Real
  • Kind
  • Fighting

• 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.

  

  Aristotle
  • Nature
  • Soul
  • Virtue

• I've done so many independents for so many years. Leads that nobody's seen.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Done
  • Years
  • Nobody

• 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.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Politeness
  • Good Name
  • Good Manners