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 Quotes
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.
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.
Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss.
The true effect of genuine politeness seems to be rather ease than pleasure… Though it be the privilege of a very small number to ravish and to charm, every man may hope by rules and caution not to give pain, and may, therefore, by the help of good breeding, enjoy the kindness of mankind, though […]
