#politeness

That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness, manners, civility. Anything. It's such a powerful force. ↗

— Danny Boyle

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Politeness. Now there's a poor man's virtue if ever there was one. What's so admirable about inoffensiveness, I should like to know. After all, it's easily achieved. One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else. People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think about them. ↗

— Diane Setterfield

#inoffensiveness #politeness #poor

Always be nice to people to their face. Then when they turn around, berate the back of their head. ↗

— Benson Bruno

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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

#politeness #family

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

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #law #manners #politeness

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

— Robert A. Heinlein

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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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Callousness and insolence bring to bare unanimous social condemnation, while the simple efforts of politeness are admired; even in those who are otherwise despised. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

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