A Quote by Fanny Burney

such is the effect of true politeness, that it banishes all restraint and embarassment.

Fanny Burney

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Fanny Burney
English - Novelist
June 13, 1752 - January 6, 1840

The true effect of genuine politeness seems to be rather ease than pleasure.

Samuel Johnson

Adrian's face was the picture of perfect politeness and restraint, meaning something disastrous was about to happen.

Richelle Mead

True politeness is to social life what oil is to machinery, a thing to oil the ruts and grooves of existence. False politeness can shine without warming and glitter without vivifying.

Frances Harper

True power and true politeness are above vanity.

Voltaire

Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength and from peace to more peace. The very first step in self-restraint is the restraint of thoughts.

Mahatma Gandhi

The latin word responsibility reveals its true meaning: the capacity to respond, to act. - Over-anxiety ultimately banishes every trace of joy from life.

Paulo Coelho

There is a certain amount of politeness here in America, which is probably more than just politeness.

Yiyun Li

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

Vladimir Putin

Politeness only teaches us to save others from unnecessary pain.... You are not bound by politeness to tell any falsehoods.

Maria Edgeworth

Home is the place where true politeness tells.

Julia McNair Wright

The only true source of politeness is consideration.

William Gilmore Simms

A true politeness does not result from any hasty and artificial polishing, it is true, but grows naturally in characters of the right grain and quality, through a long fronting of men and events, and rubbing on good and bad fortune.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Oliver Goldsmith

The effect to be sought is the dislocation of the opponent's mind and dispositions - such an effect is the true gauge of an indirect approach.

B. H. Liddell Hart

The Tea Party, which is pretty darn clear on its main focus, which is fiscal restraint, financial restraint, economic restraint, and return to Constitutional values and Founding Fathers' principles, had been impugned as racist, violent, homophobic, and all their motivations have been impugned.

Andrew Breitbart

I like restraint. Even with actors, restraint is something that I work on the most.

John Hillcoat

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