Politeness Quotes

When the moment comes we’ll talk turkey, we’ll shoot words straight from the hip, we’ll play it as it lays. Yes, when death comes with its hood we won’t be polite.

Politeness is the art of choosing among one’s real thoughts.

Politeness is organized indifference.

An armed society is a polite society. (19th century)

ASAP = After Someone Asks Politely.

Politeness is the most acceptable hypocrisy.

Anyone can be polite to a king. It takes a gentleman to be polite to a beggar.

A polite man is one who listens with interest to things he knows all about when they are told to him by a person who knows nothing about them.

Politeness wins the confidence of princes.

If you bow at all, bow low.