POLITENESS QUOTES III

quotations about politeness

Politeness is the produce of nature's soil; it was never taught, never acquired from instruction--we find it as often in the lowly cottage as in the most magnificent palace.

JOSEPH BARTLETT

Aphorisms on Men, Manners, Principles and Things


In short, politeness is the realization that, OMG, it's not all about you! Instead, it's about us.

AMY CHAVEZ

"Politeness beyond words", The Japan Times, December 24, 2011


In the great world malevolence and disdain never appear in any other garb than that of cold and ceremonious politeness.

MADAME DE GENLIS

The Duchess of La Vallière


Politeness is part of the social immune system, preventing hostility, calming inflammations and healing breaches.

MITALI SARAN

"The pathology of politeness", Business Standard, April 22, 2016


He was so excessively polite that Wallendar suspected he had endured many humiliations in his life.

HENNING MANKELL

The Dogs of Riga


Politeness. Now there's a poor man's virtue if ever there was one. What's so admirable about inoffensiveness, I should like to know. After all, it's easily achieved. One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else.

DIANE SETTERFIELD

The Thirteenth Tale


Politeness is natural good nature.

ERATOSTHENES

attributed, Day's Collacon


It is astounding what power being kind, mannered, polite and considerate has in transforming your life.

BRYANT MCGILL

Simple Reminders


The only true source of politeness is consideration, that vigilant, moral sense which never loses sight of the rights, the claims, the sensibilities of others; this is the one quality over all others necessary to make a gentleman.

WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS

Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside


Politeness is usually the inmate of an honest, social, benevolent heart.

MRS. M. HOLFORD

attributed, Day's Collacon


Polite behavior must not be deemed altogether artificial; men who, inured to the sweets of society, cultivate humanity, find an elegant pleasure in preferring others and making them happy, of which the proud, the selfish, scarcely have a conception.

LORD HENRY HOME KAMES

Elements of Criticism


At a finishing school, a girl spends a few years learning how to behave in polite society, and the rest of her life trying to find it.

EVAN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes


Politeness is like an air cushion: there may be nothing in it, but it eases our jolts wonderfully.

SAMUEL JOHNSON

attributed, 20,000 Quips & Quotes

Tags: Samuel Johnson


Politeness is the ideal union between the character of an individual and his external actions.

RICHARD J. WATTS

Politeness