A Quote by Sydney Smith

Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.

Sydney Smith

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Sydney Smith
English - Priest
June 3, 1771 - February 22, 1845

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

Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.

Oliver Goldsmith

Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.

John Dryden

Good sense and good nature are never separated; and good nature is the product of right reason.

John Dryden

Honesty is good sense, politeness, amiableness,--all in one.

Samuel Richardson

There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding.

Stanislaw I Leszczynski

Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

Joseph Addison

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

Henry David Thoreau

Have as much good nature as good sense since they generally are companions.

William Wycherley

Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine.

Alexander Pope

Good Nature, and Evenness of Temper, will give you an easie Companion for Life; Vertue and good Sense, an agreeable Friend; Love and Constancy, a good Wife or Husband. Where we meet one Person with all these Accomplishments, we find an Hundred without any one of them.

Joseph Addison

There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best thing in the world either to get a good name, or to supply the want of it.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

To do evil for good is human corruption; to do good for good is civil retribution; but to do good for evil is Christian perfection. Though this be not the grace of nature, it is the nature of grace.

Thomas Secker

Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.

Mary Wilson Little

A 'well regulated militia' was thus one that was well-trained and equipped, not one that was 'well-regulated' in the modern sense of being subjected to numerous government prohibitions and restrictions.

Glenn Reynolds

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