Politeness Quotes

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
Thomas Jefferson

Humor, Good, Truth

For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
Robert A. Heinlein

Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.
Ambrose Bierce

Hypocrisy, Acceptable

I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.
Fran Lebowitz

Heart, Find, Old

Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Desire, Oneself, Treated

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
Honore de Balzac

Nothing, Soul, Virtue

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

Greatest, Someone, Him

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Nature, Human, Warmth

Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations.
Bryant H. McGill

Others, Used, Deliver

True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
Alexander Pope

True, Self, Easy

Politeness is the flower of humanity.
Joseph Joubert

Humanity, Flower

I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.
Jackie Kennedy

Maximum, Minimum

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

War, Write, Rules

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.
Gustave Flaubert

Faith, Art, Freedom

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Friendship, Wise, Oil

Callousness and insolence bring to bare unanimous social condemnation, while the simple efforts of politeness are admired; even in those who are otherwise despised.
Bryant H. McGill

Simple, Social, While

Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused.
Tommy Lee Jones

Kindness, Overrated

Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.
Jean de la Bruyere

Makes, Within, Appear

It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.
Khaleda Zia

Politics, Patience, Impossible

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
Oliver Goldsmith

True, Different, Country

The only true source of politeness is consideration.
William Gilmore Simms

Politeness is organized indifference.
Paul Valery

Punctuality is the politeness of kings.
Louis XVIII

Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
Madame de Stael

Art, Thoughts, Among

Politeness is the poison of collaboration.
Edwin Land

That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness, manners, civility. Anything. It's such a powerful force.
Danny Boyle

Life, Live, Powerful

My father believed in toughness, honesty, politeness and being on time. All very important lessons.
Roger Moore

Time, Father, Important

The ability to compromise is not a diplomatic politeness toward a partner but rather taking into account and respecting your partner's legitimate interests.
Vladimir Putin

Rather, Compromise, Ability

I don't think you should have to try to be nice, I think most people are nice. I think being cheerful and nice is just a politeness.
Graham Norton

Nice, Try, Cheerful

In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people.
Paul Getty

Nature, Japan, Japanese

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