#polite

When your family is twice as weird as normal, you have to be twice as polite to authority, because authority hates weird. ↗

— Rosemary Clement-Moore

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The law and a thin veil of insincerity, all that prevents me from strangling an etiquette coach. ↗

— Bauvard

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Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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Politeness is organized indifference. ↗

— Paul Valery

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Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

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My fans are pretty normal, they are always really nice and polite, and they don't interrupt my meals. ↗

— Drew Carey

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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

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Democracy was supposed to champion freedom of speech, and yet the simple rules of table decorum could clamp down on the rights their forefathers had fought and died for. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#democracy #ettiquette #freedom #freedom-of-speech #funny