#polite

Lively, intelligent, and quite immature, [Emily] usually burst out with exactly the comment that summed up the situation beautifully and therefore could never in politeness be said. ↗

— Clare B. Dunkle

#insightfulness #intelligence #politeness #beauty

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

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

— Susan George

#cost #educate #families #make #pay

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

#behave #courtesy #find #gentleness #heart

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

#between #course #dress #except #frequent

Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#considerations #deliver #method #others #politeness

A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#discredit #enemy #friend #just #polite

You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing. ↗

— George McGovern

#bad #just #know #our time #polite

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

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

— Alexander Pope

#being #consists #easy #every #making