Politeness Quotes

I suggest he starts introducing himself as "Lessman"; he is classless, tactless, and mannerless.

When your family is twice as weird as normal, you have to be twice as polite to authority, because authority hates weird.

Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

He who says what he likes shall hear what he does not like.

Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

When I act tough they listen politely till the spasm passes. They know.

In general, poor is polite and rich is rude.

Spark the dreams you have with integrity and honesty. It’s gonna catch up with excellence if you make it revive in truthfulness in the midst of this world of falsehood!

My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness.

(A gentleman) is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.

When the Starbursts cost a cent apiece, the average number of candies per customer was 3.5, but when the price went down to zero, the average went down to 1.1 per customer. The students limited themselves to a large degree when the candy was free. In fact, almost all the students applied a very simple social-norm rule in this situation—they politely took one and only one Starburst. ... What these results mean is that when price is not a part of the exchange, we become less selfish maximizers and start caring more about the welfare of others. We saw this demonstrated by the fact that when the price decreased to zero, customers restrained themselves and took far fewer units.

It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

You need not to love everyone, but you need to be polite with everyone, people will appreciate your politeness more than your love, because politeness is sweeter than love.

We live in a society where mutual respect and appreciation should be considered one of the pillars of modern life.

Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate and may be offensive .

He knew very well that the great majority of human conversation is meaningless. A man can get through most of his days on stock answers to stock questions, he thought. Once he catches onto the game, he can manage with an assortment of grunts. This would not be so if people listened to each other, but they don't. They know that no one is going to say anything moving and important to them at that very moment. Anything important will be announced in the newspapers and reprinted for those who missed it. No one really wants to know how his neighbor is feeling, but he asks him anyway, because it is polite, and because he knows that his neighbor certainly will not tell him how he feels. What this woman and I say to each other is not important. It is the simple making of sounds that pleases us.

Ironic. I'm here because of my inherent dangerousness, but it's my inherent politeness that makes me put up with this. With him.

Keep an eye on your responses. Strong responses are about you more than them.

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

If ever you get invited into someone's home,' my father said (as he had been invited five or six times that morning), 'you go into the sitting-room and you say, “Oh, what an attractive room!" even if you think it's hideous.

I am going to the USA to catch sight of a wild porcupine and to give some lectures.

Often people that tell others they are "extremely polite" when the situation calls for tact and bluntness are not actually polite people. Instead, they hide behind the word “polite” because they have low self esteem or hidden agendas. Sadly, they impolitely confuse the hell out of everyone, send mixed signals, which then makes people question their sanity and motives.