Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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.
Polite conversation is rarely either.
Politeness is the flower of humanity.
Manners are nothing more than thinking about somebody else.
Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.
The only true source of politeness is consideration.
Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.