Words matter. These are the best Politeness Quotes from famous people such as Tommy Lee Jones, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Paul Valery, Mary Wilson Little, Jeremy Irons, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They’re underused.
What’s so useful about the British culture of politeness is the level of passive aggression is really fun to write.
Politeness is organized indifference.
Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.
Civility, politeness, it’s like a cement in a society: binds it together. And when we lose it, then I think we all feel lesser and slightly dirty because of it.
The list of my favorite experiences would almost equal the list of plays I’ve been in. There are a few exceptions, but out of politeness I’m not going to mention them. If you don’t have a few stinkers, you can’t appreciate the good ones.
The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.
Richard Nixon made a toast to me as a future Prime Minister of Canada when I was 4 months old, sitting as a centerpiece in the middle of a table as my father had plonked me down there. It was more about politeness than any great vision.
Politeness is, you know, is a wonderful thing. Manners are in fact, really important thing. But remember, Jesus didn’t have many manners as we now know.
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.
My father believed in toughness, honesty, politeness and being on time. All very important lessons.
Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.
Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.
Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly. The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him.
You’ve gotta be very careful that grace and politeness do not merge into a banality of behavior, where we’re just nice, sort of ‘death by cupcake.’
Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness – and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.
Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.
There is something about growing up in the Midwest that gives a different kind of sensibility. But if I’m feeling insecure, the smiles and politeness get upped a notch, and maybe that isn’t totally reflective of how I’m feeling on the inside.
I’m big on manners. I’m big on politeness. I’m big on gratitude.
The only true source of politeness is consideration.
Companies make a big point of how their culture is all about ‘bad news first,’ but when it comes to people, they are suddenly scared to communicate bad news out of some mistaken feeling of politeness or political correctness.
When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected ‘I believe’ to ‘one does feel’.
Spare me this sanctimony about politeness, please. There are millions of people in this country who hate the very word ‘Thatcher’ and ‘Thatcherism,’ which continues until this day.
Politeness is the flower of humanity.
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.
I’m sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe. The same way I’m not going to start wearing ties, I’m also not going to buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and backstabbing, the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords.
One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people.
I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word – politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.
Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
Politeness is the poison of collaboration.
Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately.
Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
We tend to assume that we have a baseline of speech that’s going to be normal in all contexts, but the truth is, we all change our ways of speaking depending on who we’re talking to. And so I think it’s kind of a gesture of politeness to the people you’re speaking to to try to say something in their own idiom.
The ability to compromise is not a diplomatic politeness toward a partner but rather taking into account and respecting your partner’s legitimate interests.
I don’t think you should have to try to be nice, I think most people are nice. I think being cheerful and nice is just a politeness.
When I see someone for the first time in a while, and they ask, ‘How have you been?’ or ‘What have you been up to?’, it’s politeness but a bit of a conversation stopper.
One of the things that hold together a human society is the existence of basic politeness among its members.
