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“Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts”

Mind Delicate Politeness

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“During a long and varied career as a bachelor, dear spouse [mock platform manner], I have noticed that marriage is usually the death of politeness between a man and a woman.”

Men Long Marriage Careers Politeness Bachelors

Author:Arnold Bennett

“When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel'.”

Feels Believe Doe I Believe Racist Bigotry Creeds Zeal Politeness Bigots Suave

Author:Ronald Knox

“Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.”

Art Literature Politeness

Book:The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857

Source: The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857

“Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out. It will wear well and will be remembered long after the prism of politeness or the complexion of courtesy has faded away.”

Wells Long Kindness Storm Remembered Courtesy Politeness Faded Complexion Prisms Storms Of Life

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.”

Easy Accomplishment Acquire Profitable Politeness

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.”

“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.”

Found Virtue Grace Generations Radical Courtesy Politeness My Generation

Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“Politeness is an inexpensive way to make friends.”

Way Friendship Politeness Inexpensive

Author:William Feather

“Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss.”

Loss Advantage Politeness Inconvenience

Book:The Rambler: In Four Volumes

Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes

“The very essence of politeness seems to be to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pleased with us as well as with themselves.”

People Wells Seems Care Action Essence Take Care Politeness Our Words Words And Actions

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“You can do a lot more with weapons and politeness than just politeness.”

Can Do Weapons Politeness

Author:Vladimir Putin

“There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude.”

Rude Obliged Politeness

Author:Daniel Dennett

“Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.”

Different Country Ceremony Politeness

Book:Works: With a Life and Notes

Source: Works: With a Life and Notes

“Don't mistake politeness for lack of strength.”

Mistake Politeness

Author:Sonia Sotomayor

“I hate being moved. I hate that man who came in. So self-righteous, so cruel. He made fun of me, that's why I cried. You never did that. You led me into temptation by your - politeness.”

Men Made Self Hate Fun I Hate Moved Temptation Righteous Cried Politeness Self Righteous

Author:Peter Ustinov

“Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough.”

Seems Force Feet Morality Ultimate Checks Impulse Pigs Domination Politeness Trough

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero.”

Faces Danger Hero Jokes Casts Oneself Supreme Tragic Delicate Refusal Politeness Tragic Hero

Book:CYRANO DE BERGERAC

Source: CYRANO DE BERGERAC

“The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.”

Conscience Chiefs Flexible Politeness Prerequisites Escorting

Author:Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

“Politeness is better than logic. You can often persuade when you cannot convince.”

Logic Convince Politeness

Author:Josh Billings

“Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.”

Should Manners Politeness

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.”

Soul Literature Virtue Politeness

Book:The Physiology of Marriage

Source: The Physiology of Marriage

“The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.”

Beautiful Form Lying Highest Built Perfection Manners Politeness Charitable Unselfish Edifice Domes Lying Men Gilded

Author:Mark Twain

“Clarity is the politeness of the man of letters.”

Men He Man Letters Clarity Politeness

Author:Jules Renard

“Politeness is fictitious benevolence.”

Manners Benevolence Politeness

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Johnson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Johnson (Illustrated)

“True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.”

Self Literature Easy Manners Courtesy Politeness

Author:Alexander Pope

“They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness.”

Special Ordinary Elsewhere Politeness

Author:Edmund Wilson

“Old men when they begin to hear the last trumpet, on the morning breeze, often have a kind of absent-minded smile; like people listening. And their smiles are just politeness.”

People Men Kind Age Lasts Morning Listening Old Age Old Man Breeze Absent Politeness Trumpets Absent Minded

Book:the hore's mouth

Source: the hore's mouth

“I still do find it very difficult in the West to connect to this politeness of smiling, not saying how you're thinking or not saying how you really feel.”

Thinking Feels Stills Difficult West Politeness

Author:Waris Dirie