Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
Polite conversation is rarely either.
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.
Manners are nothing more than thinking about somebody else.
Politeness is the flower of humanity.
The only true source of politeness is consideration.
For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.