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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
such is the effect of true politeness, that it banishes all restraint and embarassment.
Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.
The only option is politeness-remember always that you are dealing with other primates.
The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.
They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness.
Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
My father believed in toughness, honesty, politeness and being on time. All very important lessons.
I come from people who have always been polite enough to feel that nothing has ever happened to them.
Politeness is wasted on the dishonest, who will always take advantage of any well-intended concession.
Politeness decrees that you must listen to be kind; intelligence decrees that you must listen to learn.
True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations.
Politeness costs nothing. Nothing, that is, to him that shows it; but if often costs the world very dear.
Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss.
One of the things that hold together a human society is the existence of basic politeness among its members.
It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.
What's so useful about the British culture of politeness is the level of passive aggression is really fun to write.
There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding.
In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people.
Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately.
I don't think you should have to try to be nice, I think most people are nice. I think being cheerful and nice is just a politeness.
Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
Politeness has been defined to be artificial good-nature; but we may affirm, with much greater propriety, that good-nature is natural politeness.
You've gotta be very careful that grace and politeness do not merge into a banality of behavior, where we're just nice, sort of 'death by cupcake.'
Politeness is, you know, is a wonderful thing. Manners are in fact, really important thing. But remember, Jesus didn't have many manners as we now know.
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.
The ability to compromise is not a diplomatic politeness toward a partner but rather taking into account and respecting your partner's legitimate interests.
Imagine a superstar of his stature coming to someone like me and saying, 'Hi Meghana, I'm Mohanlal. Nice to meet you!' I was so taken aback by his politeness.
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.
Civility, politeness, it's like a cement in a society: binds it together. And when we lose it, then I think we all feel lesser and slightly dirty because of it.
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.
Callousness and insolence bring to bare unanimous social condemnation, while the simple efforts of politeness are admired; even in those who are otherwise despised.
When I see someone for the first time in a while, and they ask, 'How have you been?' or 'What have you been up to?', it's politeness but a bit of a conversation stopper.
Great men show politeness in a particular way; a smile suffices to assure you that you are welcome, and keep about their avocations as if you were a member of the family.
I think this whole discussion about what is politically correct - sometimes you have to name the name. You can't hide it. Politeness is good if it's not hiding the truth.
I think that helps because there has been no formality of friendship, the politeness of friendship, so we can just work directly on the work that's ahead of us [with Tom Hardey].
Spare me this sanctimony about politeness, please. There are millions of people in this country who hate the very word 'Thatcher' and 'Thatcherism,' which continues until this day.
I try to be kind, and I try to reflect that in my comedy, but I'm also incredibly bad at being mean. I can't pull it off effectively, so I always end up reverting back to politeness.
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.
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.
Companies make a big point of how their culture is all about 'bad news first,' but when it comes to people, they are suddenly scared to communicate bad news out of some mistaken feeling of politeness or political correctness.
Richard Nixon made a toast to me as a future Prime Minister of Canada when I was 4 months old, sitting as a centerpiece in the middle of a table as my father had plonked me down there. It was more about politeness than any great vision.
The list of my favorite experiences would almost equal the list of plays I've been in. There are a few exceptions, but out of politeness I'm not going to mention them. If you don't have a few stinkers, you can't appreciate the good ones.
There is something about growing up in the Midwest that gives a different kind of sensibility. But if I'm feeling insecure, the smiles and politeness get upped a notch, and maybe that isn't totally reflective of how I'm feeling on the inside.
I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe. The same way I'm not going to start wearing ties, I'm also not going to buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and backstabbing, the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords.
Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.
I do not want to be a robot, a cog in society who answers 'yes' because 'yes' is considered the appropriate answer. Neither do I want to be a protestor. I just want to seek out what lies underneath the veils of politeness and programming that I've been given as a person in this society.
With everybody having a Facebook and a Twitter, I feel like regular people consider themselves stars. It's a live, real-time upload of every time we buy a pair of socks, the most telling sign that we're losing our politeness. When you know everything about somebody, you can talk to them any way you please.