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Such is the effect of true politeness, that it banishes all restraint and embarassment.
There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude,
Politeness is organized indifference.
It is better to be kind than be impolite.
Good manners spring from just one thing - kind impulses.
Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness.
It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility, is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire. For politeness is like a counter
an avowedly false coin, with which it is foolish to be stingy.
Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.
Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
dangerously polite.
The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment these are not virtues. The goal of the mannerly is comfort, per se.
Manners are the ability to put someone else at their ease ... by turning any answer into another question.
Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others.
It seems to me that the spirit of politeness is a certain attention in causing that, by our words and by our manners, others may be content with us and with themselves.
Politeness is often fear. Kindness is always courage. But caring is what makes you human. Care more, become more human.
Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
Politeness is an inexpensive way to make friends.
The underlying principles of manners- respect, fairness, and congeniality.
Politeness requires this thing; decorum that; ceremony has its forms, and fashion its laws, and these must always follow, never the promptings of our own nature.
A lot of our lives are about being polite.
Manners are just a formal expression of how you treat people.
Manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal and of noble mind.
Even when I have bad manners... I'm still polite!
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.
Civility and etiquette, gentlemen, are all important.
The soul of politeness is not a question of rules but of tranquility, humility, and simplicity. And in the taking of tea it finds perhaps its most perfect expression.
The outward expression of empathy is courtesy.
Politeness induces morality. Serenity of manners requires serenity of mind.
I've always thought there was a fair amount of dishonesty involved in politeness.
Courtesy is the bedrock of social interchange. No matter what you're doing, even if you're fomenting revolution, you can still be courteous.
Manners require showing consideration of all human beings, not just the ones to whom one is close.
Politeness is practical Christianity.
Good manners warred with curiosity, and lost.
In the actual state of social relationships, the forms ("formes", Fr.) of politeness are necessary as a subsitute to benevolence.
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.
Being polite to a person is not a sign of respect for them. It is merely a sign of a good upbringing and a balanced nature.
That roguish and cheerful vice, politeness.
I'm polite. I guess that's the dichotomy within me. I don't like to piss people off just for the sake of pissing them off. I pick my battles.
There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.
I don't suffer from an abundance of politeness.
Some people are polite, and some are quick. Each one's a good quality to have, but most of the time quickness trumps politeness.
Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much.
Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.
I believe in courtesy, the ritual by which we avoid hurting other people's feelings by satisfying our own egos.
I grew up being taught, 'Do unto others as they would do unto you.' I would get scolded for not being polite.
Courtesy is the universal social lubricant.
It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.
Courtesy and kindness cultivate confidence with good Netiquette. Doing things right makes you feel good.
When we are polite to children, we show in the most simple and direct way possible that we value them as people and care about their feelings.
Manners are about imagination, ultimately. They are about imagining being the other person.
Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.
The true effect of genuine politeness seems to be rather ease than pleasure.
Do unto others as you would have done unto you. Manners aren't anything but a polite person being nice, no matter what everyone else is doing. But they make the world a better place, Sugar Honey, you can trust me on that.
Deep in my heart politeness impresses me more than competence.
When courtesy fails, be nasty, brutish, and short.
To the acquisition of the rare quality of politeness, so much of the enlightened understanding is necessary that I cannot but consider every book in every science, which tends to make us wiser, and of course better men, as a treatise on a more enlarged system of politeness.
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
Manners without sincerity, is called polite society
courtesy, it is also currency. It pays to be lovely to people.
The essence of good manners consists in making it clear that one has no wish to hurt. When it is clearly necessary to hurt, it must be done in such a way as to make it evident that the necessity is felt to be regrettable.
Courtesy is a waste of time; it weakens you and undermines you.
My mother raised me to be polite, to be demure. I have long operated under the idea that civility is subservience. But it hasn't gotten me very far, that type of kindness. The world respects people who think they should be running it.
Civility is not simply about manners.
Manners can make a very uncomfortable situation more tolerable.
Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.
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.
It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
You may wonder why a question of manners has got me so exercised. It's because I believe in a simple rule. If you see a person you know behave unreasonably to someone else, you can bet your last pound that before long he'll be behaving like that to you.
Politeness costs little and yields much.
Politeness, however, acts the lady's maid to our thoughts; and they are washed, dressed, curled, rouged, and perfumed, before they are presented to the public ...
It is better to be too honest to be polite than to be too polite to be honest!
High erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy.
Good manners, to those one does not love, are no more a breach of truth, than "your humble servant," at the bottom of a challengeis; they are universally agreed upon, and understand to be things of course. They are necessary guards of the decency and peace of society.
There is a certain physiognomy in manners.
The first point of courtesy must always be truth.
When I act politely, I build a reserve of goodwill in others. That reserve allows those people to cut me some slack when I do something annoying.
Manners make the world work. They're not only based on kindness but also efficiency. When people know what to do, the world is smoother. When no one knows what to do, it's chaos.
Good manners consist of doing precisely what everyone thinks should be done, especially when no one knows quite what that is.
Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.
If you can't manage courtesy, try silence.
Manners are like zero in arithmetic. They may not be much in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal of value to everything else.
Being polite is not only the right way to respond to people but also the easiest. Life is so filled with unavoidable conflict that I see no reason to promote more confrontations.
Acceptable hypocrisy is often called politeness.
I don't think being polite for polite's sake makes you a better person. I try to be as genuine as I can afford.
Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.
Politeness is the poison of collaboration.
Good manners can render even virtue tolerable.
Gentleness is the great point to be obtained in the study of manners.
Among the arts of conversation no one pleases more than mutual deference or civility, which leads us to resign our own inclinations to those of our companions, and to curb and conceal that presumption and arrogance so natural to the human mind.
True power and true politeness are above vanity.
Courtesy seldom costs anything, and the willingness to extend it can be its own subtle declaration of strength. There
I was raised not to be rude, but I also try to get the best work out of people.
Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world.
Good manners is the art of making people comfortable. Whoever makes the fewest people uncomfortable has the best manners.
Good manners reflect something from inside-an innate sense of consideration for others and respect for self.
As everybody knows, truthfulness and agreeable manners are often divorced on the ground of incompatibility.
Don't mistake politeness for lack of strength.
Courtesy should be apparent in all our actions and words and in all aspects of daily life. But be courtesy, I do not mean rigid, cold formality. Courtesy in the truest sense is selfless concern for the welfare and physical and mental comfort of the other person.
You need people in a society to have reached a certain standard of living before they can be polite. You learn how to respect others because you don't have to fight as much, you have what you need.