Politeness Quotes
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
The ability to compromise is not a diplomatic politeness toward a partner but rather taking into account and respecting your partner's legitimate interests.
Vladimir Putin
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
My father believed in toughness, honesty, politeness and being on time. All very important lessons.
Roger Moore
Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
Oliver Goldsmith
It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.
Khaleda Zia
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
Thomas Jefferson
Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately.
Philip Stanhope
Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
Otto von Bismarck
Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.
Gustave Flaubert
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
True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
Alexander Pope