Top 227 Politeness Quotes & Sayings

For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.

Politeness is the chief sign of culture.

Politeness is practical Christianity.

Home is the place where true politeness tells.

Don't mistake politeness for lack of strength.

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

There is a politeness of the heart; this is closely allied to love.

Politeness smooths wrinkles.

Politeness of mind consists in thinking chaste and refined thoughts.

Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.

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

Politeness is organized indifference.

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

Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.

Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business.

Clarity is the politeness of the man of letters.

Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness.

The boldness of his mind was sheathed in a scabbard of politeness.

They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness.

I don't suffer from an abundance of politeness.

Politeness is an inexpensive way to make friends.

In nothing do we fail more, as a Mission, than in lack of tact and politeness.

Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

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.

Politeness is the flower of humanity.

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

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

The truest politeness comes of sincerity.

Politeness is fictitious benevolence.

The only option is politeness-remember always that you are dealing with other primates.

That roguish and cheerful vice, politeness.

Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused.

I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.

Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts

Politeness is deception in pretty packaging.

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

Politeness goes far, yet costs nothing.

The only true source of politeness is consideration.

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.

Politeness costs little and yields much.

There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.

Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things.

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

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.

That politeness which we put on, in order to keep the assuming and the presumptuous at a proper distance will generally succeed. But it sometimes happens that these obtrusive characters are on such excellent terms with themselves that they put down this very politeness to the score of their own great merits and high pretensions, meeting the coldness of our reserve with a ridiculous condescension of familiarity, in order to set us at ease with ourselves.

Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.

Politeness and an affable address are our best introduction.

Funny how a little politeness can change people's minds.

He is the very pineapple of politeness.

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.

Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.

Politeness is sometimes a great tax upon sincerity.

Don’t you bully me with your politeness!

Politeness and caring for each other cannot be a thing of the past.

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

Politeness is the poison of collaboration.

The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.

Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.