Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

Manners without sincerity, is called polite society

Deep in my heart politeness impresses me more than competence.

He was a pleasant fellow, saying please and thank you as he pounded me in the face. That’s why I sent him a Get Well Soon card, since he was probably interested in my well-being.

Sometimes you must agree with someones opinion for the sake of being polite and modest, but within you, you know that you are not foolish and crazy.

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

If you add your hot passion to the cold attitude of another person, it becomes lukewarm. Don’t stand on the toes of dwarfs; stand on the shoulders of giants!

Now, you people have names. That’s because you don’t know who you are. We know who we are, so we don’t need names.”There was something irritatingly self-centered about the cat, Coraline decided. As if it...

I don’t want to be polite. I don’t think campaigning is polite. That’s a disingenuous effort.

I listen to all these complaints about rudeness and intemperateness, and the opinion that I come to is that there is no polite way of asking somebody: have you considered the possibility that your entire...

If a woman cannot make her mistakes charming, she is only a female.

Politeness is okay, but it gets old and boring. You want to attack life with a passion, not a politeness, you want people to think about you and remember you and say “she is so...

A rude man tells a women to stop talking too much because she is making noise. A polite man will tell this same woman that she looks so beautiful when her lip are closed. Compare...

As a Texan, I say ma’m and sir to my age contemporaries and open doors for anyone that I can. This goes for men, too, though it is appreciated when they beat me to it...

I speak and help some folks only because I believe they may be god in flesh, testing me for politeness.

You may have something wise to say, but HOW YOU SAY IT may make it unwise! RECREATE it, else you’ll REGRET it!

Speak so polite with people that your ill wishers become your well wishers.

Your conversations are the beginning of your connections; be careful of your communications. Talk politely to strangers; you have no knowledge about how many of them will become your close friends forever!

He wasn’t good with this sort of thing – with the back-and-forth dance between man and woman. He wasn’t even sure if they were dancing, or if she was merely being polite.

An honest man speaks truth, don’t expect him to speak sweet.

Talk to strangers politely. You don’t how many of them will become your close companions.

I’ll wait until your mouth is full of food before I ask you a question. That’s just the kind of gentleman I am.

Killing a cruelty is not a cruelty.

Balanced is probably what I am, although that’s just a polite way to say that you don’t do anything very well.

Talk to strangers politely… Every friend you have now was once a stranger, although not every stranger becomes a friend.

It’s not polite to talk with your mouth full of food.

Adversity sure does gives you trouble, but it keeps you humble.

It is unpredictable for you to know which of the strangers you are about to meet that becomes your friend. Be polite to every stranger!

She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too civil to say so, our letters are still as frequent...

You need not to love everyone, but you need to be polite with everyone, people will appreciate your politeness more than your love, because politeness is sweeter than love.

Display politeness and frankness always both in action and conversation. Don’t keep engaging in useless arguments. It scares your dreams away. Talk sensibly.

I had an interview once with some German journalist—some horrible, ugly woman. It was in the early days after the communists—maybe a week after—and she wore a yellow sweater that was kind of see-through. She...

Ability does catches my attention, but its a politeness in the person that I remember.

Never wear pride as the jersey of your dreams. You will miss the goal and lose your dreams if you put on pride!