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| No language is rude that can boast polite writers. | Aubrey Beardsley | 1872-1898, British Illustrator, Writer |
| Then I though of reading -- the nice and subtle happiness of reading ... this joy not dulled by age, this polite and nonpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, lifelong intoxication. | Logan Pearsall Smith | 1865-1946, Anglo-American Essayist, Aphorist |
| Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination. | E.E. | Edward. E.) Cummings (1894-1962, American Poet |
| You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing. | George Mcgovern | 1922-, American Democratic Politician |
| The art of conversation consist as much in listening politely, as in talking agreeably. | Atwell | |
| POLITENESS -- The most acceptable hypocrisy. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ** |
| Admiration; is our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ** |
| POLITENESS is to human nature what warmth is to wax. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
| The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect. | Carl Sandburg | 1878-1967, American Poet |
| I believe in grumbling; it is the politest form of fighting known. | Edgar Watson Howe | 1853-1937, American Journalist, Author |
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| I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word -- POLITENESS of the heart, a gentl | Emma Thompson | 1959-, British-born American-born American Actress |
| In polite society one laughs at all the jokes, including the ones one has heard before. | Frank Dane | |
| There is a kind of courtesy in scepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far. | George Santayana | 1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet |
| Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite. | Jean Kerr | 1923-, American Author, Playwright |
| Of all mechanics, of all servile handycrafts-men, a gamester is the vilest. But yet, as many of the quality are of the profession, he is admitted amongst the politest company. | John Gay | 1688-1732, British Playwright, Poet |
| I can be very polite, but I've found that doesn't always get a result. You have got to bang and thump tables. | Joy Baluch | |
| The slight that can be conveyed in a glance, in a gracious smile, in a wave of the hand, is often the knee plus ultra of art. What insult is so keen or so keenly felt, as the polite insult which it is | Julia Kavanagh | |
| The purpose of polite behaviour is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment: these are not virtues. The goal of the mannerly is comfort, per se. | June Jordan | 1939-, American Poet, Civil Rights Activist |
| Punctuality is the POLITENESS of kings. | Louis XVIII | 1755-1824, King of France |
| The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth. | Malcolm Bradbury | 1932-, British Author |
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| The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible POLITENESS. | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of B | 1789-1849, Irish Writer and Socialite |
| The highest perfection of POLITENESS is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying. | Mark Twain | 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer |
| A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home. | Oliver Goldsmith | 1728-1774, Anglo-Irish Author, Poet, Playwright |
| Ceremonies are different in every country, but true POLITENESS is everywhere the same. | Oliver Goldsmith | 1728-1774, Anglo-Irish Author, Poet, Playwright |
| Nothing is more noble than POLITENESS, and nothing more ridiculous than ceremony. | Proverb | |
| He is the very pineapple of POLITENESS! | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | 1751-1816, Anglo-Irish Dramatist |
| When suave POLITENESS, tempering bigot zeal, corrected ''I believe'' to ''One does feel.'' | Ronald Knox | 1888-1957, British Scholar, Priest |
| It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candour but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity. | Russell Lynes | 1910-, American Editor, Critic |
| It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place. | Sidonie Gabrielle Colette | 1873-1954, French Author |
| Anyone can be polite to a king. It takes a gentleman to be polite to a beggar. | Source Unknown | |
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| To find out what others are feeling, don't prod or poke. If you want play with a turtle, you can't get it to come out of its shell by prodding and poking it with a stick, you might kill it. Be gentle | Source Unknown | |
| My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and POLITENESS. | Source Unknown | |
| In truth, POLITENESS is artificial good humour, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue. | Thomas Jefferson | 1743-1826, Third President of the USA |
| The enquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a go | William Blake | 1757-1827, British Poet, Painter |
| The only true source of POLITENESS is consideration. | William Gilmore Simms | 1806-1870, American Author |
| It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite. | Wyndham Lewis | 1882-1957, British Author, Painter |
