#polite

Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts. ↗

— Madame de Stael

#art #choosing #politeness #thoughts #your

Politeness is okay, but it gets old and boring. You want to attack life with a passion, not a politeness, you want people to think about you and remember you and say "she is so passionate" you don't want people to think about you and remember you and say "she is so polite," because, who cares about polite? ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#inspiration #inspirational #inspirational-life #inspirational-quotes #inspiring

Texas, to be respected must be polite. Santa Anna living, can be of incalculable benefit to Texas; Santa Anna dead, would just be another dead Mexican. ↗

— Sam Houston

#another #benefit #dead #incalculable #just

He was so excessively polite that Wallendar suspected he had endured many humiliations in his life. ↗

— Henning Mankell

#politeness #life

One night I was standing on Third Avenue playing my guitar, when this big Irish policeman came strolling by, and stopped to listen to my singing and playing. When I was done, he politely handed me a ticket for disturbing the peace, while at the same time telling me how much he liked my voice. I wish I still had that ticket. ↗

— Frank Stallone

#big #came #disturbing #done #guitar

Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - to be on fire, like Juliet or Guinevere or Eloise... ↗

— Emma Thompson

#fire #love #politeness #love

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

— Dumas Malone

#boldness #courtesy #mind #politeness #scabbard

A real gentleman is as polite to a little girl as to a woman. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#politeness #fashion

Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense. ↗

— Gretchen Rubin

#kindness #offensive #politeness #tact #fun