Definition of Politeness

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Definition of Politeness
	Politeness High finish; smoothness; burnished elegance. The quality or state of being polite; refinement of manners; urbanity; courteous behavior; complaisance; obliging attentions. Related Definitions: Behavior, Being, Burnished, Complaisance, Courteous, Elegance, Finish, High, Obliging, Of, Or, Polite, Quality, Refinement, Smoothness, State, The, Urbanity

Politeness Quotations

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

I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.
Jackie Kennedy

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

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

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

Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.
Ambrose Bierce

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

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

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

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

Politeness Translations

politeness in Dutch is beleefdheid, hoffelijkheid
politeness in Italian is cortesia

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