#polite

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Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused.


Tommy Lee Jones


#overrated #politeness

The only true source of politeness is consideration.


William Gilmore Simms


#only #politeness #source #true

Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately.


Philip Stanhope


#bow #concerned #immediately #letters #much

One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else.


Diane Setterfield


#talent

Nay, but prithee, with sprinkles 'pon it instead," I said solemnly, "and frosting of white.


Jim Butcher


#politeness #sweetness #political

Woah,' I said, blocking the doorway. 'You can't come in here. This is the girls' room.' Even as it came out of my mouth, I knew it sounded dumb. Dumb, I thought and maybe even wrong. You...are a boy, aren't you?' I asked. 'I mean, don't take that the wrong way or anything -' J.Lo is a boy, yes.' I let that go. So...you Boov have boys and girls...just like us?' Of course,' said J.Lo. 'Do not be ridicumlous.' I smiled a wan little smile. 'Sorry.' The Boov have seven magnificent genders. There is boy, girl, girlboy, boygirl, boyboy, boyboygirl, and boyboyboyboy.' I had absolutely no response to this.


Adam Rex


#gender #humor #politeness #humor

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

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

In England I am always madam; I arrived too late to ever be a miss. In New York I have only been madamed once, by the doorman at the Carlyle Hotel.


Anna Quindlen


#form-of-address #formality #london #madam #miss