Top Politeness Quotes

Manners and politeness will never become old-fashioned.

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

Politeness Definition

(n.) High finish; smoothness; burnished elegance.

(n.) The quality or state of being polite; refinement of manners; urbanity; courteous behavior; complaisance; obliging attentions.

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

Even a wolf knows how to be polite when animalistic humans have no clue about politeness

Sometimes you must agree with someones opinion for the sake of being polite and modest, but within you, you know that you are not foolish and crazy.

As the head of an expedition, you can't pussyfoot around being polite to everyone. You have to show your teeth once in a while; a little growling goes a long way.

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

Rudeness, abruptness, gory tales of blood and thunder, and coarse language usually show up the greenhorn or counterfeit, and certainly the ill-bred. "The bravest are the tenderest; the gentlest are th...

Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.

E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being.

If the secret core of potlatch is the reciprocity of exchange, why is this reciprocity not asserted directly, why does it assume the mystified form of two consecutive acts each of which is staged as a...

In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people.

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

the veneer of civilization is exceedingly thin

What is the test of good manners? Being able to bear patiently with bad ones.

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.

The author relates George Bernard Shaw's sentiments that polite conversation excludes the only two subjects that matter, religion and politics.

One of the more tiring aspects of hitchhiking is a need to be sociable and make conversation with whoever is driving you. It would be considered poor form to accept a ride, hop into the passenger seat...

Be polite write diplomatically even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.