#polite

I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes. ↗

— Nadia Giosia

#chopped #conversation #family #grew #i

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man’s cruelty and baseness. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#courtesy #manners #politeness #art

The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness. ↗

— Marguerite Gardiner

#conscience #escort #flexible #inflexible #politeness

Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children. ↗

— Susan George

#cost #educate #families #make #pay

Making an effort is polite, and getting ready and looking after yourself makes an event more fun. ↗

— Jude Law

#effort #event #fun #getting #looking

I'm always a big fan of if you approach somebody politely about something and you're not a nudge - you're just pretty honest and simple, my kind of philosophy is that I'm not afraid of 'no,' and that's way different than 'I won't take no for an answer.' ↗

— Carol Leifer

#afraid #always #answer #approach #big

A man needs to be polite, not just to me but to everyone. I watch that. How does he treat the waiter? How does he treat the coat-check girl? How does he treat the driver? ↗

— Adriana Lima

#driver #everyone #girl #how #i

Politeness is half good manners and half good lying. ↗

— Mary Wilson Little

#good manners #half #lying #manners #politeness

Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying. ↗

— Mary Wilson Little

#good manners #half #lying #manners #one half

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#company #exist #genteel #impossible #polite