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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Morality makes stupid.- Custom represents the experiences of men of earlier times as to what they supposed useful and harmful - but the sense for custom (morality) applies, not to these experiences as such, but to the age, the sanctity, the indiscussability of the custom. And so this feeling is a hindrance to the acquisition of new experiences and the correction of customs: that is to say, morality is a hindrance to the development of new and better customs: it makes stupid.
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The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.
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I've done so many independents for so many years. Leads that nobody's seen.
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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.
