Politeness Quotes

Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

In England I am always madam; I arrived too late to ever be a miss. In New York I have only been mad...

Preserve me from such cordiality! It is like handling briar-roses and may-blossoms - bright enough t...

(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects whether moral or intellectual sh...

If ever you get invited into someone's home,' my father said (as he had been invited five or six tim...

Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - ...

My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtue...

The opposite of talking is not listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

When I act tough they listen politely till the spasm passes. They know.

(A gentleman) is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of t...

Ah men do not know how much strength is in poise that he goes the farthest who goes far enough.

A man must have very eminent qualities to hold his own without being polite.

E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being.

Nay, but prithee, with sprinkles 'pon it instead," I said solemnly, "and frosting of white.

Be not intimidated...nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of p...

We are enjoined whenever we behold the gifts of God in others so to reverence and respect the gifts ...

Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm and behave as outrageously as the world wil...

It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the streets and frighten ...

A true gentlemen is one who is never unintentionally rude.

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

He knew very well that the great majority of human conversation is meaningless. A man can get throug...

There is always a best way of doing everything if it be only to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ...

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

Sick cultures show a complex of symptoms such as you have named...but a dying culture invariably exh...

Have you shat, my child, I said gently.

Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate and may be offensive .

Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.

I am going to the USA to catch sight of a wild porcupine and to give some lectures.

If the secret core of potlatch is the reciprocity of exchange, why is this reciprocity not asserted ...

Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rud...

Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.

Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.

I can't stand a naked light bulb any more than I can stand a rude remark or a vulgar action.

Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.