Quotes Tagged With :polite

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

She didn't want to alienate herself from the very wealthy man that was about to offer her a job by declining....

Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing....

Nothing much bothered you for a while and you kept walking like a silhouette through this town, saying....

There is always a best way of doing everything if it be only to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways....

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....

If a man didn't make sense the Scotch felt it was misplaced politeness to try to keep him from knowing....

Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness....

Infants never learn to soothe themselves to sleep. They learn, abandoned in seclusion, that no matter....

The attributes of a great lady may still be found in the rule of the four S's: Sincerity Simplicity....