#politeness

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

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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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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

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

— Marguerite Gardiner

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Politeness is the poison of collaboration. ↗

— Edwin Land

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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

#behave #courtesy #find #gentleness #heart

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

— Bryant H. McGill

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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. ↗