156 Quotes About Politeness
- Author Diane Setterfield
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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.
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- Author Dick Francis
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If ever you get invited into someone's home,' my father said (as he had been invited five or six times that morning), 'you go into the sitting-room and you say, “Oh, what an attractive room!" even if you think it's hideous.
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- Author Bryant McGill
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A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.
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- Author Jodi Meadows
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Try to be polite.""I'm always polite.""You're always eyeing people's valuables. That's hardly polite.
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- Author Rosemary Clement-Moore
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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.
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- Author John Adams
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Be not intimidated...nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice.
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- Author Karin Tansek
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the veneer of civilization is exceedingly thin
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- Author Diane Setterfield
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Politeness. Being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else.
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- Author Ayn Rand
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She said it quite correctly; there was nothing offensive in the quiet politeness of her voice; but following his high note of enthusiasm, her voice struck a tone that seemed flat and deadly in its indifference—as if the two sounds mingled into an audible counterpoint around the melodic thread of her contempt.
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