Politeness is the poison of collaboration.
Edwin Land

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

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

Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.
Ambrose Bierce

Punctuality is the politeness of kings.
Louis XVIII

The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.
Marguerite Gardiner

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

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

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

When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel'.
Ronald Knox