POLITENESS QUOTES

quotations about politeness

Politeness quote

Politeness is an inexpensive way of making friends.

WILLIAM FEATHER

Forbes, 1989


Being polite is not meant to be a graceful way of being dishonest. Politeness is a way in which we honor and respect others.

MARK NICHOLS

The Rules: Ten to Live By


Some folks are too polite to be up to any good.

KIN HUBBARD

attributed, 20,000 Quips & Quotes


Of course, it is no easy matter to be polite; in so far, I mean, as it requires us to show great respect for everybody, whereas most people deserve none at all.

ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Counsels and Maxims

Tags: Arthur Schopenhauer


Politeness is the outward garment of goodwill.

JULIUS CHARLES HARE

Guesses at Truth

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Either one learns politeness at home ... or the world teaches it to you with a whip and you may get hurt in the process.

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Tender Is the Night

Tags: F. Scott Fitzgerald


Politeness is one half good nature and the other half good lying.

MARY WILSON LITTLE

A Paragrapher's Reveries


Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

OTTO VON BISMARCK

attributed, Scoundrels All: being a fulsome compendium of observations, mostly disenchanted and dyspeptic, about politics and politicians and their arcane doings down through the ages


A man should be as polite all the time as a candidate is just before an election.

ED HOWE

attributed, 20,000 Quips & Quotes


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

JOSH BILLINGS

Wit and Wisdom of Josh Billings


A man never loses anything by politeness.

HENRY VENN

attributed, Day's Collacon


Please and thank you are still magic words.

ANONYMOUS

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Treat everyone politely, even those rude to you; not because they are nice, but because you are.

JEAN CHERNI

"Are politeness and good manners unimportant and out of date?", New Haven Register, April 15, 2015


Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing.

BALTASAR GRACIAN

The Art of Worldly Wisdom

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Politeness may be regarded as the zero of friendship's thermometer.

STANISLAUS BOUFFLERS

attributed, Day's Collacon


Politeness is ... forgetting ourselves in order to seek what may be agreeable to others.

WELLINS CALCOTT

Thoughts Moral and Divine

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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Counsels and Maxims

Tags: Arthur Schopenhauer


True politeness is perfect ease and freedom; it simply consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself.

B. H. SMART

attributed, Day's Collacon


Politeness is lost by anger.

AL-BUSTI

attributed, Day's Collacon


The key to being polite is to think of yourself as Lord or Lady Bountiful -- much too well-bred to let on that your bunions pinch or your fine sense of smell has just discerned that something has died.

JOY BROWNE

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