Politeness
High finish; smoothness; burnished elegance.
The quality or state of being polite; refinement of manners; urbanity; courteous behavior; complaisance; obliging attentions.
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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
For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
Robert A. Heinlein
True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
Alexander Pope
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.
Ambrose Bierce
Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
Honore de Balzac
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.
Gustave Flaubert
Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
Madame de Stael
Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
Otto von Bismarck
Politeness Translations
politeness in Dutch is beleefdheid, hoffelijkheid
politeness in Italian is cortesia
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