Politeness quotes

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◆ That awkward moment when you're over someones house and they offer you food but you don't know how much to take.

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◆ So let us begin anew - remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof

- John Fitzgerald Kennedy99

◆ Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.

- Mary Wilson Little99

◆ Play fair. Don't hit people. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.

- Robert Fulghum99

◆ True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can

- Alexander Pope99

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

- Robert A Heinlein99

◆ If you have no money, be polite.

- Danish Proverb99

◆ An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

- Robert A Heinlein99

◆ Politeness is the most acceptable hypocrisy

- Ambrose Bierce99

◆ Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

- Otto Von Bismarck99

◆ Politeness wins the confidence of princes.

- Chinese Proverbs99

◆ 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 Setterfield99

◆ Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense.'

- Gretchen Rubin99

◆ A real gentleman is as polite to a little girl as to a woman.

- Louisa May Alcott99

◆ As I am sure you know, when people say 'It's my pleasure,' they usually mean something along the lines of, 'There's nothing on Earth I would rather do less...'

- Lemony Snicket99