P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business.”
Source: The Art of Money Getting
“Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly. The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him.”
Source: Making Money
“Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back.”
“Politeness as filtered through fragility and supremacy isn't about manners; it's about a methodology of controlling the conversation.”
Source: Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
“Politeness costs little and yields much.”
“Politeness costs nothing. Nothing, that is, to him that shows it; but if often costs the world very dear.”
“Politeness does not always inspire goodness, equity, complaisance, and gratitude; it gives at least the appearance of these qualities, and makes man appear outwardly, as he should be within.”
“Politeness doesn't require actual humanity. It's just cultural ritual. Kindness means you actually care and have good intentions toward a person. It means you think about them as much as you think about yourself. Politeness is fancy curtains in your front window. Kindness is the home-cooked meal on your dinner table.”
Source: Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered: The Definitive How-To Guide
“Politeness goes far, yet costs nothing.”
Source: Character
“Politeness has become so rare that some people mistake it for flirtation.”
“Politeness has been defined to be artificial good-nature; but we may affirm, with much greater propriety, that good-nature is natural politeness.”
Source: Moral reflections, sentences and maxims of Francis, duc de la Rochefoucauld
“Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things.”
“Politeness induces morality. Serenity of manners requires serenity of mind.”
“Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.”
“Politeness is an inexpensive way to make friends.”
“Politeness is better than logic. You can often persuade when you cannot convince.”
“Politeness is deception in pretty packaging.”
Source: The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant
“Politeness is fictitious benevolence.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Johnson (Illustrated)
“Politeness is fictitious benevolence. Depend upon it, the want of it never fails to produce something disagreeable to one or other.”
Source: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
“Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.”
Source: A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith
“Politeness is not always a sign of wisdom; but the want of it always leaves room for a suspicion of folly, if folly and imprudence are the same.”
Source: Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor
“Politeness is okay, but it gets old and boring. You want to attack life with a passion, not a politeness, you want people to think about you and remember you and say "she is so passionate" you don't want people to think about you and remember you and say "she is so polite," because, who cares about polite?”
“Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss.”
Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes
“Politeness is organized indifference.”
“Politeness is practical Christianity.”
“Politeness is so important,” Vanessa said, holding us up to her face. “Especially for young people. That’s what I care about more than anything else in the world. Good manners.”
She narrowed her eyes at us. “That day in front of the grocery,” she scolded, “you didn’t apologize for crashing into me. So I had no choice. I had to punish you.” She studied us, tsk-tisking.
So that’s why Anthony wasn’t turned into a chicken, too! I realized. Before he ran away, Anthony had called out to Vanessa that he was sorry.
If only Cole and I had apologized then! We wouldn’t be peeping little chicks today.”
Source: Chicken Chicken
“Politeness is sometimes a great tax upon sincerity.”
“Politeness is super important in dealing with space people as is protocol.”
Source: Mercy Ai: Age of Discovery
“Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.”
“Politeness is the chief sign of culture.”
“Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Politeness is the flower of humanity.”
Source: Some of the
“Politeness is the most influential language, yet not many people speak it.”
Source: Quantraz
“Politeness is the most influential language, yet not many people speak this language.”
Source: Quantraz
“Politeness is the poison of collaboration.”
“Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.”
Source: The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: Letters from a citizen of the world, to his friend in the East. A familiar introduction to the study of natural history
“Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.”
Source: Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays
“Politeness is wasted on the dishonest, who will always take advantage of any well-intended concession.”
“Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.”
“POLITENESS must carry the true weight of SINCERITY and INTEGRITY for it to be a true act of POLITENESS.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“Politeness of mind consists in thinking chaste and refined thoughts.”
“Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts”
“Politeness only teaches us to save others from unnecessary pain.... You are not bound by politeness to tell any falsehoods.”
Source: Works of Maria Edgeworth: Modern Griselda. Moral tales. 1825
“Politeness smooths wrinkles.”
“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.”
Source: Romance and Reality
“Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Politeness. Now there's a poor man's virtue if ever there was one. What's so admirable about inoffensiveness, I should like to know. After all, it's easily achieved. One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else. People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think about them.”
Source: The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel
“Political action involves mental vulgarity, not merely because it entails the occurrence and support of those who are mentally vulgar, but because of the simplification of human life implied in even the best of it purposes.”
“Political action is the highest responsibility of a citizen.”
“Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.”