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In a world eager for noise, introverts weave their legacies in silence; their invisibility fuels the deepest storms of change.
Author:
Avery Kingsley
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It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.
Author:
Khaleda Zia
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Politeness is organized indifference.
Author:
Paul Valery
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Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately.
Author:
Philip Stanhope
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Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
Author:
Madame Stael
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The only true source of politeness is consideration.
Author:
William Simms
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
Author:
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
Author:
Francois Rochefoucauld
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True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.
Author:
Alexander Pope
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Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations.
Author:
Bryant McGill
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Callousness and insolence bring to bare unanimous social condemnation, while the simple efforts of politeness are admired; even in those who are otherwise despised.
Author:
Bryant McGill
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Punctuality is the politeness of kings.
Author:
Louis Louis XVIII
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Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.
Author:
Mary Little
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Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.
Author:
Mary Little
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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.
Author:
Fran Lebowitz
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Politeness is the poison of collaboration.
Author:
Edwin Land
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When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel'.
Author:
Ronald Knox
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I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.
Author:
Jackie Kennedy
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Politeness is the flower of humanity.
Author:
Joseph Joubert
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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.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
Author:
Robert Heinlein
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
Author:
Oliver Goldsmith
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In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people.
Author:
Paul Getty
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The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.
Author:
Marguerite Gardiner
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Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.
Author:
Gustave Flaubert
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.
Author:
Sidonie Colette
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Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.
Author:
Jean Bruyere
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
Author:
Otto Bismarck
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One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
Author:
Josh Billings
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Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.
Author:
Ambrose Bierce
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Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
Author:
Honore Balzac
