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Polite Quotes - Page 3

A lot of our lives are about being polite.

A lot of our lives are about being polite.

Rachelle Lefevre
Polite, Being Polite, Our Lives
Source: twilight.tribute.ca

Politeness is practical Christianity.

Orville Dewey
Christianity, Politeness, Practicals

I have seen people rude by being over-polite.

Michel de Montaigne
People, Rude, Polite
Michel de Montaigne, Marvin Lowenthal (1999). “The Autobiography of Michel de Montaigne: Comprising the Life of the Wisest Man of His Times : His Childhood, Youth, and Prime : His Adventures in Love and Marriage, at Court, and in Office, War, Revolution, and Plague : His Travels at Home and Abroad : His Habits, Tastes, Whims, and Opinions”, p.97, David R. Godine Publisher

The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Escorting, Chiefs, Politeness

Comedy isn't polite and it isn't correct and it isn't accurate, even. It's just a mess. So that's the way that I approach it.

Louis C. K.
Way, Comedy, Polite

I ain't saying you're a liar, because that wouldn't be polite. But I'll tell you this, ma'am. If I loved liars, I'd hug you to death.

Jim Thompson
Liars, Hug, Polite
Jim Thompson (2010). “POP. 1280”, p.9, Hachette UK

Political correctness is what right-wing bigots call what everybody else calls being polite

Iain Banks
Wings, Political, Polite
Iain Banks (2008). “Dead Air”, p.118, Hachette UK

In nothing do we fail more, as a Mission, than in lack of tact and politeness.

Hudson Taylor
Failing, Missions, Politeness

I think I've realized that business and being polite [don't] match. You can be fair, but me being polite was not me being fair to myself.

Beyonce Knowles
Dream, Thinking, Polite

Politeness is the chief sign of culture.

Baltasar Gracian
Culture, Chiefs, Politeness

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

Thomas Jefferson
Cynicism, Intimate, Polite

Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet.

Thelma Ritter
Killing, Rear Window, Polite

Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.

Sinclair Lewis
Writing, Safe, Polite
Letter declining Pulitzer Prize in fiction (1926)

The truest politeness comes of sincerity.

Samuel Smiles
Sincerity, Politeness, Truest
Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.238

Honesty is good sense, politeness, amiableness,--all in one.

Samuel Richardson
Honesty, Politeness, Good Sense
Samuel Richardson (1810). “The History of Sir Charles Grandison: In a Series of Letters”, p.386

Politeness is fictitious benevolence.

Samuel Johnson
Manners, Politeness, Benevolence
Dr. Samuel Johnson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Johnson (Illustrated)”, p.8598, Delphi Classics

Gentleness is the great point to be obtained in the study of manners.

Nathaniel Parker Willis
Study, Manners, Politeness

Men of polite learning and a liberal education.

Matthew Henry
Learning, Men, Polite
Matthew Henry, J.B Williams (1828). “Exposition of the Old and New Testament”, p.788

Politeness smooths wrinkles.

Joseph Joubert
Wrinkles, Smooth, Politeness

There is a politeness of the heart; this is closely allied to love.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Heart, Politeness
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.

Jessica Hagedorn
Underdog, Polite, Valuable
Interview with Kay Bonetti, www.english.illinois.edu.

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

Gustave Flaubert
Art, Literature, Politeness
Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, p.220, Harvard University Press

Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Mind, Politeness, Delicate

such is the effect of true politeness, that it banishes all restraint and embarassment.

Fanny Burney
Politeness, Restraint, Effects
Fanny Burney (1857). “Evelina: Or, The History of a Young Lady's Introduction to the World”, p.332

The boldness of his mind was sheathed in a scabbard of politeness.

Dumas Malone
Mind, Politeness, Boldness
Dumas Malone (1951). “Jefferson and His Time: Jefferson and the rights of man”

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