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Courtesy "Doth not behave itself unseemly." Unselfishness "Seeketh not its own." Good temper "Is not provoked." Guilelessness "Taketh not account of evil." Sincerity "Rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth.
Good manners can render even virtue tolerable.
Generosity wins favour for everyone, especially when it is accompanied by modesty.
Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.
For the human race is, more than any other species, at once social by nature and quarrelsome by perversion.
Good manners warred with curiosity, and lost.
Curious how Love destroys every vestige of that politeness which the human race, in its years of evolution, has so painfully acquired.
Courtesy is the foundation of all good manners.
We should strive to treat each other with common Human Decency
A gentleman considers what is right; the vulgar consider what will pay.
In the human species at all events there is a great diversity of pleasures. The same things delight some men and annoy others, and things painful and disgusting to some are pleasant and attractive to others.
The best intentions (of respect and tolerance) can often be annoying to those whose cultures are not in dominance: we feel that we are often zoological specimens.
Great genial power, one would almost say, consists in not being original at all; in being altogether receptive; in letting the world do all, and suffering the spirit of the hour to pass unobstructed through the mind.
The disgust of distinguished people for snobs who want to force themselves upon them, the virile man has for the invert, the woman for every man who is too much in love with her.
There is generosity in giving, but gentleness in receiving.
Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself.
Whatever our background, culture or race, what rewards us most powerfully and consistently are the most deceptively simple abilities of all: the ability to be kind.
Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.
To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others; this is true morality.
Dislike required energy and a good memory for slights; geniality was so much less demanding, and at the end of the day felt better too.
Humanity, perhaps, that quality of benevolence that humans have, without irony, named after themselves.
Politeness is the flower of humanity.
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.
Amiable weaknesses of human nature.
There is a politeness of the heart; this is closely allied to love.
Even the humblest mammal's strong sexual, parental, and social instincts give rise to 'do unto others as yourself' and 'love thy neighbor as thyself'.
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
There are three classes of friendship and enmity, since men are so disposed to one another either by preference or by need or by pleasure and pain.
Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.
Kindness it is that brings forth kindness always.
Perhaps the summary of good-breeding may be reduced to this rule. "Behave unto all men as you would they should behave unto you." This will most certainly oblige us to treat all mankind with the utmost civility and respect, there being nothing that we desire more than to be treated so by them.
It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals,
The finest and most beautiful ideas on morals and manners have been swept away before our times, and nothing is left for us but to glean after the ancients and the ablest amongst the moderns.
Decency, not to dare to do that in public which it is decent enough to do in private.
[ ... ]One pretends that manners are the formalisation of basic kindness and consideration, but a great deal of the time they're simply aesthetics dressed up as moral principles, aren't they?
As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones. There is so much goodness and ingenuity in a raindrop that an apothecary wouldn't let it go for less than half-a-crown ...
Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
Benevolence is one of the distinguishing characters of man.
It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.
Generosity, pleasing address, courage and propriety of conduct are not acquired, but are inbred qualities.
We ought to love and be gentle with one another.
Civility is a work of the imagination, for it is through the imagination that we render others sufficiently like ourselves for them to become subjects of tolerance and respect, if not always affection.
It may often be noticed, the less virtuous people are, the more they shrink away from the slightest whiff of the odour of un-sanctity. The good are ever the most charitable, the pure are the most brave.
Observe decorum, and it will open a path to morality.
The fantastic graces of Chivalry lay upon the surface of life,but beneath it was a half-savage population,fierce and animal,with little ruth or mercy.
Unkindness involves a failure of the imagination so acute that it threatens not just our happiness but our sanity. Caring
Love. Really, it's responsible for the most vulgar excesses.
FIRST MORAL
Good manners are not easy
They need a little care,
But when we least expect it
Bring rewards both rich and rare.
SECOND MORAL
Brute force or bribes of diamonds
Bend others to your will,
But gentle words have greater power
And gain more conquests still.
Sex is the point of contact between man and nature, where morality and good intentions fall to primitive urges.
courtesy, it is also currency. It pays to be lovely to people.
Love, patience, and meekness can be just as contagious as rudeness and crudeness.
In every one of us there are two ruling and directing principles, whose guidance we follow wherever they may lead; the one being an innate desire of pleasure; the other, an acquired judgment which aspires after excellence.
The warmth of mutual respect ... Not the heat of anger or the ice of hate.
Courtesy is the bedrock of social interchange. No matter what you're doing, even if you're fomenting revolution, you can still be courteous.
There may be unselfish natures, there may be disinterested feelings.
Good manners are a part of good morals.
Good manners are the expressions of benevolence in personal intercourse, by which we endeavor to promote the comfort and enjoyment of others, and to avoid all that gives needless uneasiness.
One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and those below us.
There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.
Etiquette requires us to admire the human race.
Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much.
Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.
They who sow courtesy reap friendship, and they who plant kindness gather love.
The icy precepts of respect.
Love! love!.. thou art never to be reconciled with discretion!
Kindness is the best nourishment for humanity.
Courtesy will be in my heart to give to all.
For benefits by their very greatness spotlight the difference in conditions and arouse a secret annoyance in those who profit from them. But the charm of simple good manners is almost irresistible.
Kindness steers no easy course. Attributing it to character, we seldom recognize the secret efforts of a noble heart, whereas we reward really wicked people for the evil they refrain from committing.
I am little acquainted with politeness, but I know a good deal of benevolence of temper and goodness of heart.
The total and universal want of manners, both in males and females, is ... remarkable ... that polish which removes the coarser and rougher parts of our nature is unknown and undreamed of.
High erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy.
True kindness ennobles the giver
Curiosity and courtesy are very often at variance.
Kindness is strength, courtesy is power.
The horrible pleasure of pleasing inferior people.
Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
Kindness kindled the love in human heart.
But to the particular species of excellence men are directed, not by an ascendant planet or predominating humour, but by the first book which they read, some early conversation which they heard, or some accident which excited ardour and emulation.
From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.
Civility and etiquette, gentlemen, are all important.
Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.
There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding.
A good relationship is a competition of generosity.
A second quality of mature sirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance ...
There is in some men a dispassionate neutrality of mind, which, though it generally passes for good temper, can neither gratify nor warm us: it must indeed be granted that these men can only negatively offend: but then it should also be remembered that they cannot positively please.
How much wit, good-nature, indulgences, how many good offices and civilities, are required among friends to accomplish in some years what a lovely face or a fine hand does in a minute!
Without good manners, human society would be intolerable and impossible
It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy.
In our interactions with others, gentleness, kindness, respectare the source of harmony
Manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.
Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.
Sometimes decent people must do indecent things.
Politeness is fictitious benevolence. Depend upon it, the want of it never fails to produce something disagreeable to one or other.
Respect is the lifeblood of progress, and the safe harbour of humanity's great aspirations
Aesthetics, ethics, and many good things in humans are contagious.
Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from.
Courtesy, modesty, good manners, conformity to definite ethical standards are universal, but what constitutes courtesy, modesty, good manners, and definite ethical standards is not universal. It is instructive to know that standards differ in the most unexpected ways
A moment of kindness can produce a mood of harmony between heaven and earth. Purity of heart can leave a fine example for a hundred generations.
We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man.