Politeness Quotes

• 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
  • Benevolent

• Politeness and caring for each other cannot be a thing of the past.

  

  Peter Frampton
  • Past
  • Each Other
  • Politeness

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

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Soul
  • Virtue
  • Politeness

• 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.'

  

  Bono U2
  • Death
  • Behavior
  • Politeness

• Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused.

  

  Tommy Lee Jones
  • Morning
  • Kindness
  • Overrated

• He was the soul of politeness to everyone -- to some with a hint of aversion, to others with a hint of respect.

  

  Ivan Turgenev
  • Respect
  • Politeness
  • Aversion

• 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

• One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.

  

  Josh Billings
  • Beat
  • Victories
  • Politeness

• 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 U2
  • Remember
  • Jesus
  • Manners

• 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

• Since the average person's small supply of politeness must last him all his life, he can't afford to waste it on bridge partners.

  

  Alfred Sheinwold
  • Partners
  • Afford
  • Politeness

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

  

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
  • Wise
  • Friendship
  • Politeness

• Well, it was evident that in ordinary cases, having tired one’s host, one would go away. But was this quite an ordinary case? She couldn’t think so. She couldn’t help remembering, though it was a thing she never thought of, that she had made way without difficulty for Stephen to come and live in this very house, giving him everything—why, with both hands giving him everything—and she couldn’t help feeling that to be allowed to stay in it for a few days, or even weeks, wasn’t so very much to want of him. Not that he didn’t allow her to stay in it; he was still assiduous in all politenesses, opening doors, and lighting candles, and so on. It was only that she knew he was tired of her; tired to the point of no longer being able to speak when she was there.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Help
  • Remembering
  • Evident

• Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Life
  • inspirational
  • Consideration

• Accept praise for its worth — politeness. Be brutally frank with yourself. It's safer.

  

  Nellie Bly
  • Praise
  • Frank
  • Politeness

• Funny how a little politeness can change people's minds.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Mind
  • Politeness

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