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Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom. Gustave Flaubert

Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.

Mary Wilson Little

Politeness is the flower of humanity.

Joseph Joubert

It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.

Khaleda Zia

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness, manners, civility. Anything. It's such a powerful force.

Danny Boyle

Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

Louis XVIII of France

True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

Alexander Pope

I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.

Jackie Kennedy

The only true source of politeness is consideration.

William Gilmore Simms

The list of my favorite experiences would almost equal the list of plays I've been in. There are a few exceptions, but out of politeness I'm not going to mention them. If you don't have a few stinkers, you can't appreciate the good ones.

T. R. Knight

You've gotta be very careful that grace and politeness do not merge into a banality of behavior, where we're just nice, sort of 'death by cupcake.'

Bono

In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people.

J. Paul Getty

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

Honore de Balzac

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.

Josh Billings

Politeness is the poison of collaboration.

Edwin Land

Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations.

Bryant H. McGill

When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel'.

Ronald Knox

For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.

Robert A. Heinlein

I don't think you should have to try to be nice, I think most people are nice. I think being cheerful and nice is just a politeness.

Graham Norton

Politeness decrees that you must listen to be kind; intelligence decrees that you must listen to learn.

Letitia Baldrige

Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.

Ambrose Bierce

Politeness is organized indifference.

Paul Valery

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

Otto von Bismarck

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

Thomas Jefferson

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

Gustave Flaubert

Callousness and insolence bring to bare unanimous social condemnation, while the simple efforts of politeness are admired; even in those who are otherwise despised.

Bryant H. McGill

Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.

Madame de Stael

In the contemporary world, we think of politeness as surface behavior, like frosting - it's sweet and attractive and finishes off the cake. But 19th century nobility and the enlightened thinkers and stoics before them viewed manners in a very different way. To them, manners are an outward expression of an inward struggle.

Amor Towles

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Arthur Schopenhauer

There is something about growing up in the Midwest that gives a different kind of sensibility. But if I'm feeling insecure, the smiles and politeness get upped a notch, and maybe that isn't totally reflective of how I'm feeling on the inside.

Paul Rudd

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 gentleness of the spirit.

Fran Lebowitz

Richard Nixon made a toast to me as a future Prime Minister of Canada when I was 4 months old, sitting as a centerpiece in the middle of a table as my father had plonked me down there. It was more about politeness than any great vision.

Justin Trudeau

From the time I've landed in India and wherever I've travelled, I've only experienced politeness and courtesy. There has been no hatred whatsoever. But I strongly feel every country has its formalities and rules that one has to abide by. I believe in respecting that, as it is in the best interests of everyone.

Fawad Khan

Politeness is, you know, is a wonderful thing. Manners are in fact, really important thing. But remember, Jesus didn't have many manners as we now know.

Bono

Great men show politeness in a particular way; a smile suffices to assure you that you are welcome, and keep about their avocations as if you were a member of the family.

John James Audubon