Otto von Bismarck Quotes

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

The greater the controversy, the more you need manners.

It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.

Protocol is everything.

While speaking in the NA, one must maintain respect.

I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.

Etiquette does not render you defenseless. If it did, even I wouldn't subscribe to it. But rudeness in retaliation for rudeness just doubles the amount of rudeness in the world.

Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.

It is impolite to criticize your host; it is militarily stupid to criticize your allies.

Minimum information given with maximum politeness.

Just because you can say things that are uncivil does not mean that your should say things that are uncivil.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.

I never let my politics supersede my manners.

Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.

Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.

When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.

The etiquette question has become of so much importance as to be an object of state.

The world prefers decorum to honesty.

We don't have to be rude with each other; we have to be diplomatic.

I don't know where, or by whom, Judge Wapner was raised, but my parents taught me, when you don't have something nice to say about someone, say nothing.

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.