Gentleness is the great point to be obtained in the study of manners.
Politeness is wasted on the dishonest, who will always take advantage of any well-intended concession.
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
No use to preach to the working-man courtesy & politeness when at the same time the working-man is not given working conditions under which he can stay polite and soft-mannered.
When good friends praise a gifted person he often appears to be delighted with them out of politeness and goodwill, but in reality he feels indifferent.
They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness.
There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude.
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
such is the effect of true politeness, that it banishes all restraint and embarassment.
Punctuality is the politeness of kings.
Politeness is deception in pretty packaging.
The sight of the bare katana inspires everyone to a practically Nipponese level of politeness
Politeness only teaches us to save others from unnecessary pain. . . . You are not bound by politeness to tell any falsehoods.
The only true source of politeness is consideration.
Politeness is not always a sign of wisdom; but the want of it always leaves room for a suspicion of folly, if folly and imprudence are the same.
The aim is to burn through to first thoughts, to the place where energy is unobstructed by social politeness or the internal censor, to the place where you are writing what you mind actually sees and feels, not what it thinks it should see or feel.
Don’t you bully me with your politeness!
Clarity is the politeness of the man of letters.
The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.
In the media universe we're in, where there are people screaming on one end, there is no problem at all with having a little bit of extra politeness.