Politeness Quotes

Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - to be on fire, like Juliet or Guinevere or Eloise...

~ Emma Thompson

But Johannes had said, Politeness is something you owe other people, because when you show a little courtesy, everything becomes easier and better. But first and foremost, it's something you owe yourself. You are David.

~ Anne Holm

Ignorance has one virtue: persistence. It will insist through dogged persistence on leading others to follow its vision no matter how misguided. Ignorance will drive the world to the brink of failure and catastrophe and beyond into the abyss with arrogance and anger because wisdom is often too polite to fight. Wisdom doesn’t like to impose its will, but that is all ignorance understands—force over free will and choice. Sooner or later the world comes to its senses, but oh the damage that has been done.

~ John Kramer

Manners and politeness will never become old-fashioned.

~ Auliq Ice

Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.

~ Amit Kalantri

In general, poor is polite and rich is rude.

~ Amit Kalantri

Principles in a poor is admirable as politeness in a prince.

~ Amit Kalantri

Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects.

~ Stephen King

The crime rates would go right down, I think, if Americans stopped saying: 'Have a nice day,' to one another. At least it would stop me from contemplating violence; when people in shops & so on order me to have a nice day in this authoritarian way, I want to kill, kill, kill. When I mutter 'sod off' under my breath, they think it is a Russian Orthodox benediction.

~ Susannah Clapp

Great people don’t only know what to say, they also know how to say it.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Preserve me from such cordiality! It is like handling briar-roses and may-blossoms - bright enough to the eye, and outwardly soft to the touch, but you know there are thorns beneath, and every now and then you feel them too; and perhaps resent the injury by crushing them in till you have destroyed their power, though somewhat to the detriment of your own fingers.

~ Anne Brontë

Lively, intelligent, and quite immature, [Emily] usually burst out with exactly the comment that summed up the situation beautifully and therefore could never in politeness be said.

~ Clare B. Dunkle

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

~ Auliq Ice

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

~ Dumas Malone

It is astounding what power being kind, mannered, polite and considerate has in transforming your life.

~ Bryant Mcgill

A moment of truth is very powerful. Instead of smiling to be polite, just frown. Instead of laughing when you are nervous or uncomfortable, just speak your truth. Instead of acting like everything is all right, proclaim it isn't alright, and talk about your feelings! Honor your truth. Honor yourself. Be real.

~ Bryant Mcgill

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.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

~ Auliq Ice

Killing a cruelty is not a cruelty.

~ Amit Kalantri

Display politeness and frankness always both in action and conversation. Don’t keep engaging in useless arguments. It scares your dreams away. Talk sensibly.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

As a Texan, I say ma'm and sir to my age contemporaries and open doors for anyone that I can. This goes for men, too, though it is appreciated when they beat me to it and disappointing when they don't.

~ Tiffany Madison

Gentleman: An imaginary creature found in Jane Austen novels.

~ Natalya Vorobyova

I suggest he starts introducing himself as Lessman; he is classless, tactless, and mannerless.

~ Natalya Vorobyova

Spark the dreams you have with integrity and honesty. It’s gonna catch up with excellence if you make it revive in truthfulness in the midst of this world of falsehood!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Never wear pride as the jersey of your dreams. You will miss the goal and lose your dreams if you put on pride!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense.

~ Gretchen Rubin

Politeness. Being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else.

~ Diane Setterfield

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.

~ Tahir Shah

Infants never learn to soothe themselves to sleep. They learn, abandoned in seclusion, that no matter the volume of their despondence, no matter the force of their tears, when they are alone and frightened, no-one will ever come to their rescue. Infants do not soothe themselves. They merely surrender. And it is caged in their cribs where the infants learn, in the face of their demons, to remain silent and submitting.

~ C. Sean Mcgee

Sick cultures show a complex of symptoms such as you have named...but a dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Have you shat, my child, I said gently.

~ Samuel Beckett

Adversity sure does gives you trouble, but it keeps you humble.

~ Amit Kalantri

You need not to love everyone, but you need to be polite with everyone, people will appreciate your politeness more than your love, because politeness is sweeter than love.

~ Amit Kalantri

Often people that tell others they are extremely polite when the situation calls for tact and bluntness are not actually polite people. Instead, they hide behind the word “polite” because they have low self esteem or hidden agendas. Sadly, they impolitely confuse the hell out of everyone, send mixed signals, which then makes people question their sanity and motives.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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 the daring.

~ Kenneth W. Estes

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.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

PLEASE and THANK YOU...two polite phrases which are slowly disappearing from our vocabulary.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

We are enjoined whenever we behold the gifts of God in others so to reverence and respect the gifts as also to honor those in whom they reside.

~ John Calvin

He knew very well that the great majority of human conversation is meaningless. A man can get through most of his days on stock answers to stock questions, he thought. Once he catches onto the game, he can manage with an assortment of grunts. This would not be so if people listened to each other, but they don't. They know that no one is going to say anything moving and important to them at that very moment. Anything important will be announced in the newspapers and reprinted for those who missed it. No one really wants to know how his neighbor is feeling, but he asks him anyway, because it is polite, and because he knows that his neighbor certainly will not tell him how he feels. What this woman and I say to each other is not important. It is the simple making of sounds that pleases us.

~ Peter S. Beagle