Quotes Tagged With :politeness

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

As a Texan, I say ma'm and sir to my age contemporaries and open doors for anyone that I can. This goes....

Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.

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....

Lively, intelligent, and quite immature, [Emily] usually burst out with exactly the comment that summed....

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

This was our last night. We only had one curtain call, Bree. And I thought they were going to give us....

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

If the secret core of potlatch is the reciprocity of exchange, why is this reciprocity not asserted directly,....