#polite

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth. ↗

— Malcolm Bradbury

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Always speak politely to an enraged Dragon. ↗

— Steven Brust

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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. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

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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

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Politeness is half good manners and half good lying. ↗

— Mary Wilson Little

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

— Mary Wilson Little

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Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at Pearl Harbor's officers' mess and are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945. ↗

— William Manchester

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The concert is a polite form of self induced torture. ↗

— Henry Miller

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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