Quotes About Politeness

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

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

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

Nothing is more dissimilar than natural and acquired politeness. The first consists in a willing abnegation of self; the second in a compelled recollection of others.

(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach.

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

Christian piety annihilates the egoism of the heart; worldly politeness veils and represses it.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

The only true source of politeness is consideration.

Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough.

True power and true politeness are above vanity.