E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being.

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.

THE MYTH OF THE GOOD OL BOY AND THE NICE GAL The good of boy myth and the nice gal are a kind of social conformity myth. They create a real paradox when put together...

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...

He knew very well that the great majority of human conversation is meaningless. A man can get through most of his days on stock answers to stock questions, he thought. Once he catches onto the...

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....

Jacob, get over here or I’ll freeze your underwear.” Something like that.

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

Nine times out of 10, the most charming thing to say in any given situation will be the exact opposite of what one really feels.

When the Starbursts cost a cent apiece, the average number of candies per customer was 3.5, but when the price went down to zero, the average went down to 1.1 per customer. The students limited...

Politeness is organized indifference.

Something else? That’s the nice way of saying they’re bat-shit crazy.

Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of things different from the ego.

Deep in my heart politeness impresses me more than competence.

We are enjoined whenever we behold the gifts of God in others so to reverence and respect the gifts as also to honor those in whom they reside.

All my life I have placed great store in civility and good manners, practices I find scarce among the often hard-edged, badly socialized scientists with whom I associate. Tone of voice means a great deal...

They’re the only thing worse than family, other people’s family.

Infants never learn to soothe themselves to sleep. They learn, abandoned in seclusion, that no matter the volume of their despondence, no matter the force of their tears, when they are alone and frightened, no-one...

When your family is twice as weird as normal, you have to be twice as polite to authority, because authority hates weird.

But Johannes had said, “Politeness is something you owe other people, because when you show a little courtesy, everything becomes easier and better. But first and foremost, it’s something you owe yourself. You are David.

As I am sure you know, when people say ‘It’s my pleasure,’ they usually mean something along the lines of, ‘There’s nothing on Earth I would rather do less.’ […]

Politeness is the poison of collaboration.

pre-economy of the economy,” its zero-level, that is, exchange as the reciprocal relation of two non-productive expenditures. If the gift belongs to Master and exchange to the Servant, potlatch is the paradoxical exchange between Masters....

In England I am always madam; I arrived too late to ever be a miss. In New York I have only been madamed once, by the doorman at the Carlyle Hotel.

I remember manners, that’s when people are scared to make other persons mad.

polite” because they have low self esteem or hidden agendas. Sadly, they impolitely confuse the hell out of everyone, send mixed signals, which then makes people question their sanity and motives.

Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.

Nay, but prithee, with sprinkles ‘pon it instead,” I said solemnly, “and frosting of white.

Spark the dreams you have with integrity and honesty. It’s gonna catch up with excellence if you make it revive in truthfulness in the midst of this world of falsehood!

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...

It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility, is just as insane a proceeding as to set your...

Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn – to be on fire, like Juliet or Guinevere or Eloise…

Acceptable hypocrisy is often called politeness.

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

This was our last night. We only had one curtain call, Bree. And I thought they were going to give us a standing ovation, but no-o-o-. Do you know why half the audience stood up?””To...

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

Sick cultures show a complex of symptoms such as you have named…but a dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle...

A moment of truth is very powerful. Instead of smiling to be polite, just frown. Instead of laughing when you are nervous or uncomfortable, just speak your truth. Instead of acting like everything is all...

Never start a sentence with the words ‘No offense.

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

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.

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

Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.

It is astounding what power being kind, mannered, polite and considerate has in transforming your life.

When I act tough they listen politely till the spasm passes. They know.

Woah,’ I said, blocking the doorway. ‘You can’t come in here. This is the girls’ room.’ Even as it came out of my mouth, I knew it sounded dumb. Dumb, I thought and maybe even...

The author relates George Bernard Shaw’s sentiments that polite conversation excludes the only two subjects that matter, religion and politics.

The first rule of etiquette a boy learns when he’s about to entersociety is that civility is due to all women. No provocation, nomatter how unjust and rudely delivered, can validate a man who failsto...

Ironic. I’m here because of my inherent dangerousness, but it’s my inherent politeness that makes me put up with this. With him.

Preserve me from such cordiality! It is like handling briar-roses and may-blossoms – bright enough to the eye, and outwardly soft to the touch, but you know there are thorns beneath, and every now and...