Politeness Quotes

While there are certain social graces or politeness which involve not hurting another's feelings ? if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all ? it is very confusing to children. The whole issue of honesty can be very frustrating for parents to teach. - Jacqui Rivait

When we first met, I was so impressed with him. But Hal took a dislike to me, just like his character in the play. Probably my Southern politeness, which he thought was kind of phony. It was only near the end of the shoot, when I was sick as a dog with the flu and I stopped trying to charm him, that he got over that dislike, and we started to laugh together. - Dixie Carter

When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel'. - Ronald Knox

Whatever you do, do with kindness. Whatever you say, say with kindness. Wherever you go, radiate kindness. - RtnSaleem Ahmad Khan

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul. - Honore De Balzac

True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can. - Alexander Pope

Though they did not kiss, / Yet still between his Darkness and his Brightness / There passed a mutual glance of great politeness. - Lord Byron

This is a life-threatening situation. I don't worry about politeness in life-threatening situations. - Tonia Caselman

They have an emotional connection. It's not just out of curiosity or politeness. People feel passionate. - Peter Horton

There's a sort of politeness and a little bit of a distance or reserve that's characteristic of a lot of people in the area that's oddly punctuated by these horrible, heinous crimes that you hear about more frequently than you think. - Ethan Coen