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The only true source of politeness is consideration.

William Gilmore Simms

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William Gilmore Simms
American - Novelist
April 17, 1806 - June 11, 1870

The only true source of politeness is consideration,--that vigilant moral sense which never loses sight of the rights, the claims, and the sensibilities of others. This is the one quality, over all others, necessary to make a gentleman.

William Gilmore Simms

True politeness is consideration for the opinions of others. It has been said of dogmatism that it is only puppyism come to its full growth; and certainly the worst form this quality can assume is that of opinionativeness and arrogance.

Samuel Smiles

Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations.

Bryant H. McGill

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

Maria Edgeworth

Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back.

Thomas Sowell

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

A candidate's faith is not the only consideration, but should be a major consideration in electing the president of the United States.

Robert Jeffress

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

That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness, manners, civility. Anything. It's such a powerful force.

Danny Boyle

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

Awful as the consideration of eternity is, it is a source of great consolation to the righteous.

Charles Buck

Chance is the only source of true novelty.

Francis Crick

Home is the place where true politeness tells.

Julia McNair Wright

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

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