quotations about politeness
Politeness is part of the social immune system, preventing hostility, calming inflammations and healing breaches.
MITALI SARAN
"The pathology of politeness", Business Standard, April 22, 2016
Politeness is the produce of nature's soil; it was never taught, never acquired from instruction--we find it as often in the lowly cottage as in the most magnificent palace.
JOSEPH BARTLETT
Aphorisms on Men, Manners, Principles and Things
In the great world malevolence and disdain never appear in any other garb than that of cold and ceremonious politeness.
MADAME DE GENLIS
The Duchess of La Vallière
In short, politeness is the realization that, OMG, it's not all about you! Instead, it's about us.
AMY CHAVEZ
"Politeness beyond words", The Japan Times, December 24, 2011
Politeness is natural good nature.
ERATOSTHENES
attributed, Day's Collacon
He was so excessively polite that Wallendar suspected he had endured many humiliations in his life.
HENNING MANKELL
The Dogs of Riga
Politeness. Now there's a poor man's virtue if ever there was one. What's so admirable about inoffensiveness, I should like to know. After all, it's easily achieved. One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else.
DIANE SETTERFIELD
The Thirteenth Tale
It is astounding what power being kind, mannered, polite and considerate has in transforming your life.
BRYANT MCGILL
Simple Reminders
The only true source of politeness is consideration, that vigilant, moral sense which never loses sight of the rights, the claims, the sensibilities of others; this is the one quality over all others necessary to make a gentleman.
WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS
Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside
Politeness is like an air cushion: there may be nothing in it, but it eases our jolts wonderfully.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
attributed, 20,000 Quips & Quotes
Polite behavior must not be deemed altogether artificial; men who, inured to the sweets of society, cultivate humanity, find an elegant pleasure in preferring others and making them happy, of which the proud, the selfish, scarcely have a conception.
LORD HENRY HOME KAMES
Elements of Criticism
At a finishing school, a girl spends a few years learning how to behave in polite society, and the rest of her life trying to find it.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Politeness is the ideal union between the character of an individual and his external actions.
RICHARD J. WATTS
Politeness
Politeness is usually the inmate of an honest, social, benevolent heart.
MRS. M. HOLFORD
attributed, Day's Collacon