Politeness Quotes - Page 2

Politeness is the chief sign of culture.

The truest politeness comes of sincerity.

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

Politeness is fictitious benevolence.

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

Politeness smooths wrinkles.

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

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

Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts

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

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

There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding.

The only option is politeness-remember always that you are dealing with other primates.

There is nothing costs less than civility.

They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness.

There is a certain amount of politeness here in America, which is probably more than just politeness.

Don’t you bully me with your politeness!

Politeness costs nothing. Nothing, that is, to him that shows it; but if often costs the world very dear.

Politeness has been defined to be artificial good-nature; but we may affirm, with much greater propriety, that good-nature is natural politeness.

I don't suffer from an abundance of politeness.

I come from people who have always been polite enough to feel that nothing has ever happened to them.

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.

Home is the place where true politeness tells.

That roguish and cheerful vice, politeness.

Politeness of mind consists in thinking chaste and refined thoughts.