Politeness Quotes
Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.
Gustave Flaubert
My father believed in toughness, honesty, politeness and being on time. All very important lessons.
Roger Moore
The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.
Marguerite Gardiner
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.
Khaleda Zia
True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
Alexander Pope
Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately.
Philip Stanhope
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness, manners, civility. Anything. It's such a powerful force.
Danny Boyle
Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations.
Bryant H. McGill
Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
Otto von Bismarck
I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.
Fran Lebowitz
Callousness and insolence bring to bare unanimous social condemnation, while the simple efforts of politeness are admired; even in those who are otherwise despised.
Bryant H. McGill
Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
Oliver Goldsmith