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Definition of Politeness

Politeness

  1. High finish; smoothness; burnished elegance.
  2. The quality or state of being polite; refinement of manners; urbanity; courteous behavior; complaisance; obliging attentions.

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

Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.
Ambrose Bierce

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

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

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

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