best quotations about
Politeness |
and Good Manners
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Quotations
 | Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none. — Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, American politician & writer 17 likes |
 | Accuracy is the politeness of kings. — Louis XV of France, King of France 12 likes |
 | The stronger a man is, the more gentle he can afford to be. — Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, American writer 11 likes |
 | Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy. — Ambrose Bierce, 1842–1914, American writer 9 likes |
 | When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 6 likes |
 | Politeness is organized indifference. — Paul Valery, 1871-1945, French poet 5 likes |
 | Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. — Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894, Scottish writer 5 likes |
 | Be kind to unkind people. They need it the most. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist 5 likes |
 | A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does. — Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904, Russian writer 4 likes |
 | Good manners are a combination of intelligence, education, taste and style mixed together so that you don't need any of those things. — P.J. O’ Rourke, 1947-2022, American columnist & writer 4 likes |
 | The manner is often as important as the matter, sometimes more so. — Lord Chesterfield, 1694-1773, English statesman & writer 3 likes |
 | Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready. — Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919, American President [1901-1909] 3 likes |
 | Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. — George Washington, 1732-1799, the first American President 3 likes |
 | A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners. — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 2 likes |
 | The greater man the greater courtesy. — Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet 2 likes |
 | Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr., 1940-2021, American self-help writer 2 likes |
 | Don’t flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. |
 | Politeness does not interfere with facts, politeness is just another fact. |
| It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken. |
| Congratulation, n. The civility of envy. |
 | Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest. |
 | Politeness is to kindness what words are to thought. |
| Be polite and generous, but don’t undervalue yourself. |
 | Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness. |
| Manners are the hypocrisy of nations. |
 | A gentleman doesn't have one set of manners for the house of a poor man and another for the house of someone with an income incomparable to his own. |
 | Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime. |
 | Good words are worth much, and cost little. |
Ancient Greek
 | Character lies in polite and friendly speaking. Ήθος το πράον και το προσηνές ρήμα. — Aesop, 620-560 BC, Ancient Greek fabulist 12 likes |
 | Although they despise each other, they embrace each other, and although they want to be above the others, they bow to each other. Αλλήλων καταφρονούντες αλλήλοις αρεσκεύονται και αλλήλων υπερέχειν θέλοντες, αλλήλοις υποκατακλίνονται. — Marcus Aurelius, 121-180 AD, Roman Emperor ‐ Meditations XI, 14 5 likes |
 | When you are in a position of power, be well-mannered, if you would have the respect, not the fear, of those around you. Ισχυρόν όντα πράον είναι, όπως οι πλησίον αιδώνται μάλλον ή φοβώνται. — Chilon of Sparta, 6th cent. BC, one of the 7 sages of Ancient Greece 4 likes |
