Politeness Quotes - page 3

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. (P. T. Barnum)
Everything that tends to make it difficult to distinguish youth from age is an act of civilization. The best-mannered age in history invented the wig - a homage rendered by hair to baldness. The effect of powder and rouge is to make young women like their grandmothers, and invalids like healthy people. Clever dressmaking establishments and beauty shops create fashions which make it possible for elderly women to keep hoping. After a certain age, the art of dressing consists of hiding one's shortcomings, and this is another form of politeness. The veil is a marvelous invention for confusing the image and giving its wearers the semblance of beauty. All adornments are veils: they conceal the ravages of time as well as may be. View quote
André Maurois
Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Reason is a free gift from God and politeness is acquisition. He who undertakes politeness has power over it. He who undertakes reason increases (himself) through that nothing but ignorance. View quote
Ali al-Rida
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Politeness is for people toward whom we feel indifferent, and moods, both good and bad, are for those we love. View quote
Émile Chartier
Adrian's face was the picture of perfect politeness and restraint, meaning something disastrous was about to happen. View quote
Richelle Mead
King Aillas talks softly and with great politeness; he has the uncomfortable skill of calling one a false-hearted blackguard, a liar, a cheat and a villain, but making it seem a fulsome compliment. View quote
Jack Vance
I'm sure it's gotta be a great job 'cause rock stars are known for their punctuality and politeness, so... View quote
Patrick Stump
Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within. View quote
Jean de La Bruyère
Clarity is the politeness of the man of letters. (Jules Renard)
Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
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. View quote
Fran Lebowitz
All Politeness is owing to Liberty. We polish one another, and rub off our Corners and rough Sides by a sort of amicable Collision. To restrain this, is inevitably to bring a Rust upon Mens Understandings. View quote
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury
Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
Because if you want me to "act professional", I can tell you that I'm not interested. 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. Because THAT is what "acting professionally" results in: people resort to all kinds of really nasty things because they are forced to act out their normal urges in unnatural ways. View quote
Linus Torvalds
Politeness is the poison of collaboration. View quote
Edwin H. Land
The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness. View quote
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Politeness is wasted on the dishonest, who will always take advantage of any well-intended concession. View quote
Barrett Brown
Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying. View quote
Mary Wilson
Elak got up and recovered his rapier, loudly thanking Ishtar for his deliverance. "For," he thought, "a little politeness costs nothing, and even though my own skill and not Ishtar's hand saved me, one never knows." Too, there were other dangers to face, and if the gods are capricious, the goddesses are certainly even more so. (Henry Kuttner)
Politeness is the art of bearing boredom without being bored. View quote
Joseph Joubert
Politeness is the flower of humanity. View quote
Joseph Joubert
Certainly it is okay for them to play. I see no reason in the world why we shouldn't compete with colored athletes as long as they conduct themselves with politeness and gentility. Let me say also that no white man has the right to be less of a gentleman than a colored man, in my book that goes not only for baseball but in all walks of life. View quote
Ty Cobb
Civility carries with it the essence of courtesy, politeness, and consideration of others. All of the education and accomplishments in the world will not count for much unless they are accompanied by marks of gentility, of respect for others, of going the extra mile. View quote
Gordon B. Hinckley