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I'm not hard to get along with.
A modern definition of equanimity: cool. This refers to one whose mind remains stable & calm in all situations.
You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
But politeness and candour run together, when one is not fitting neither is the other. Then the occasion calls for silence, that frail partition between the ill-concealed and the ill-revealed, the clumsily false and the unavoidably so.
True courtesy ... is real kindness kindly expressed.
A common civility to an impertinent fellow, often draws upon one a great many unforeseen troubles; and if one doth not take particular care, will be interpreted by him as an overture of friendship and intimacy.
I'm really easy to get along with once you see it my way.
All's well that ends well.
An honorable human relationship ... is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.
Both men accepted that the nature of the request, its intimacy and self-conscious reflection on their friendship, had created, for the moment, an uncomfortable emotional proximity which was best dealt with by their parting without another word.
Not through enmity does enmity come to an end; enmity comes to an end through friendship.
Peace broke out.
I am being perfectly fucking civil.
Acknowledge the unexpected exchange of fellow feeling between
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.
Politeness is organized indifference.
silence is kind of considered approval.
As a person, I'm polite - I want to please.
Courtesty and cordiality are not only not the same, but they are incompatible. Why so? Courtesy is an effort, and cordiality is free.
A true politeness does not result from any hasty and artificial polishing, it is true, but grows naturally in characters of the right grain and quality, through a long fronting of men and events, and rubbing on good and bad fortune.
The truest politeness comes of sincerity.
I'm very polite by nature, even the voices in my head let each other finish their sentences.
Even demons can be polite.
There is no diplomacy like silence.
The sweetest cordial we receive at last,
Is conscience of our virtuous actions past.
I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.
Forgive me for speaking frankly, but after the past quarter-hour's conversation, I am unconvinced that any of you possess the sense or sensitivity to impart the news in any respectful fashion - Amelia
We'll both walk away smiling, in harmonious equipoise.
Enmity dies when friendship is born.
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.
I'm generally a pretty friendly person.
Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable.
It was not perhaps the warmest friendship in the world, they would not send each other Christmas gift greetings, but they would not murder each other.
I have trespassed upon your time too long. I will take my departure with a thousand thanks for your amibility.
Not at all. I wish you would have had a bannana.
You are most amiable
Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend.
Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
Gently to hear, kindly to judge.
Equanimity can be hard to talk about.
Politeness is fictitious benevolence. Depend upon it, the want of it never fails to produce something disagreeable to one or other.
Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness.
Rivalry discovers that courtesy overlooks.
If a woman likes another woman, she's cordial. If she doesn't like her, she's very cordial.
All is well, all is well. Though everything is a mess, all is well.
Nothing was spoken, it was just mutually understood.
Be merciful, moderate, and modest.
Forget, forgive; conclude, and be agreed.
Your silence is not acceptable.
We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man.
Nothing is more dissimilar than natural and acquired politeness. The first consists in a willing abnegation of self; the second in a compelled recollection of others.
All is well," I said as soothingly as possible. "The Maginot Line is secured, the truce is agreed, and I have her promise not to invade Poland.
True politeness is to social life what oil is to machinery, a thing to oil the ruts and grooves of existence. False politeness can shine without warming and glitter without vivifying.
He that thinks amiss, concludes worse.
Seated at table -
no need for the fracture
of the room's silence; noiselessly
they conversed.
Are the rules more important to you than friendship?"
" 'Friendship' is a strong word. I'd prefer 'good relationship between colleagues.' "
She proffered this expression with ingenuous, affable calm.
Kindly politeness is the slow fruit of advanced reflection; it is a sort of humanity and kindliness applied to small acts and every day discourse: it bids man soften towards others, and forget himself for the sake of others: it constrains genuine nature, which is selfish and gross.
silence is golden
If we are truly humble , we will co-operate.
Equanimity means that one does not do abhorrence at the time of abhorrence (generating incidents) and one does not do attachment at the time of attachment (generating incidents).
What a school of politeness is such a contemplation of the past! To take everything objectively, to be angry at nothing, to love nothing, to understand everything
makes one gentle and pliable.
Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.
By universal custom, your enemy is never more polite than when he is planning or has planned your destruction.
We must recall the most important of humanity guidelines: Be polite. Being polite is possibly the greatest daily contribution everyone can make to life on Earth.
It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.
Etiquette-a fancy word for simple kindness.
His manner somehow friendly and courtly at the same time.
The only true source of politeness is consideration.
On a personal level, we all get along fine.
No, Emma, your amiable young man can be amiable only in French, not in English. He may be very 'aimable,' have very good manners, and be very agreeable; but he can have no English delicacy towards the feelings of other people: nothing really amiable about him.
Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding; the contrary is always surprising. I believe that one never agrees on anything except by mistake, and that all harmony among human beings is the happy fruit of an error.
The most amiable people are those who least wound the self-love of others.
Justice is impartiality. Only strangers are impartial.
If it goes well with you, then all is well.
Those who go along get along.-- Sam Snead
You'll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
Courtesy is contagious. Let us spread it.
Whatever displeasure she felt was openly voiced, and quickly resolved, by either compromise or one partner's acceptance of the other's intractability.
Callousness and insolence bring to bare unanimous social condemnation, while the simple efforts of politeness are admired; even in those who are otherwise despised.
Being polite does not mean being mummified.
I am friendly.
I am lovable.
Be how you want to be received.
Let us be very gentle with our neighbors' failings, and forgive our friends their debts as we hope ourselves to be forgiven.
Untimely conduct is the discord of manners.
All Politeness is owing to Liberty. We polish one another, and rub off our Corners and rough Sides by a sort of amicable Collision. To restrain this, is inevitably to bring a Rust upon Mens Understandings.
One of the first essentials in securing a good-natured equanimity is not to expect too much of the people amongst whom you dwell.
Although at the time I didn't realize what was happening, I was unable to make a decision that might displease those around me. For years, whatever directive I may have issued ended with the phrase, 'If it's all right with you.' If I thought I'd done anything to make someone unhappy, I'd agonize.
The respectable world and I are on easy terms. I ignore it when I choose, and it does likewise with me.
The tone of good conversation is brilliant and natural; it is neither tedious nor frivolous; it is instructive without pedantry, gay without tumultuousness, polished without affectation, gallant without insipidity, waggish without equivocation.
Much as I have no wish to hurt anyone's feelings, my first obligation has not been to be nice but to be true to my perhaps peculiar memories, experiences and feelings.
Silence is a great peacemaker.
polite with dignity, affable without formality, distant without haughtiness, grave without austerity,
All is fair in love and war and Parliamentary procedure.
However revolutionary it may be, the Internet still hasn't altered the basic law of human communication: Being nice to your interlocutors is a good way to start any negotiations, particularly, when being hostile is an open invitation for a cyber-fight.
It's okay if we get mad at each other?"
"Yeah, Buddy, it's OK, as long as we don't stay mad, and as long as we forgive each other when we mess up."
from upcoming book, "When I Am in Your Arms.
Unanimity is the mistress of strength.
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking
I am, I fear, Inclined to be unfashionably sincere. ORONTE
All's well that ends with only minor lacerations.
If you can't manage courtesy, try silence.
A moderate silence ensued. A neutral-to-slightly-positive silence. True, silence is still silence, except when you think about it too much.
Even when I have bad manners... I'm still polite!