Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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In the actual state of social relationships, the forms ("formes", Fr.) of politeness are necessary as a subsitute to benevolence.
African Spir
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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?
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
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The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
Barbara Walters
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Every month brings pleasure bright If the heart is only right.
Palmer Cox
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Pity is extolled as the virtue of prostitutes.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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 . . .
Minnie Maddern Fiske
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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.
Aristotle
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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.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton