Quotes Tagged With :politeness

If ever you get invited into someone's home,' my father said (as he had been invited five or six times....

Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate and may be offensive .

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

There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.

Even a wolf knows how to be polite when animalistic humans have no clue about politeness

It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the streets and frighten the....

The boldness of his mind was sheathed in a scabbard of politeness.

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

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - to....