A Quote by Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles

Politeness costs little and yields much.

Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles

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Costs Little Much Politeness Yields

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Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles
French - Writer
1647 - July 12, 1733

The wisest and best are repulsive, if they are characterized by repulsive manners. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has great purchasing power.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Politeness costs nothing. Nothing, that is, to him that shows it; but if often costs the world very dear.

William Allingham

It costs us so little to go vegan. It costs animals so much if we don't.

Gary L. Francione

Politeness goes far, yet costs nothing.

Samuel Smiles

Treat your enemies with courtesy, and you'll see how valuable it really is. It costs little but pays a nice dividend: those who honor are honored. Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing.

Baltasar Gracian

There's a lot of research that suggests that organic yields are close or superior to conventional yields depending on factors like climate. In a drought year an organic field of corn will yield more - considerably more - than a conventional field; organic fields hold moisture better so they don't need as much water. It simply isn't true that organic yields are lower than conventional yields.

Michael Pollan

Politeness has been defined to be artificial good-nature; but we may affirm, with much greater propriety, that good-nature is natural politeness.

Stanislaw I Leszczynski

To the acquisition of the rare quality of politeness, so much of the enlightened understanding is necessary that I cannot but consider every book in every science, which tends to make us wiser, and of course better men, as a treatise on a more enlarged system of politeness.

Harold Monro

Everyone starts out with a little self, and it costs everything to move past that little self. It costs the life of the little self to be the life within that's deeper than that little self.

John de Ruiter

The current fast food that we have is inexpensive when you buy it, but the long-term costs of eating it and the long-term costs to society, are much too high. This cheap food, when you add up all the total costs, is much too expensive.