Quotes about Politeness
Etiquette is the stuff you gotta do just 'cause that's how everyone else does it. Like holding your fork in your left hand, or saying 'Bless you' if someone sneezes. Manners is treating people with respect.
— Tana French
when you start displaying courtesy, politeness, and consideration, people start displaying them right back.
— John Wooden
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
— Mark Twain
When they asked him to stay for a while longer, he declined.
— Acts 18:20
How do you do?" "How do you do?" echoed Mr. Ingleby. They gazed at one another with the faint resentment of two cats at their first meeting. Mr. Hankin smiled kindly at them both.
— Dorothy Sayers
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
— Jacques Maritain
Politeness and courtesy are a small price to pay for the goodwill of others.
— John Wooden
Gran was just being polite. Southern people are supposed to be polite and gracious. She's trying to show me how to be the same way.
— Lauraine Snelling
Manners is treating people with respect.
— Tana French
Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Did you hear what I was playing, Lane? I didn't think it polite to listen, sir.
— Oscar Wilde
Being politically correct means saying what's polite rather than what's accurate. I like to be accurate.
— Robert Kiyosaki