Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

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

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.

If you're not a nice person, don't call.

I have never really encountered anybody that was rude to me. Well, not to my face anyway.

Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.

It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude.

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

The greater the controversy, the more you need manners.

The only true source of politeness is consideration.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

There's no excuse for rudeness.

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.

If someone's being less than courteous to you, I don't think you need to pay any attention to them.

Charm, I think, is education, really, no? I was educated to be nice to everybody. If you want to be rude and mean, I'm sure your life isn't that nice.

People are pretty respectful for the most part.

All doors open to courtesy.

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

Civility is not simply about manners.

A man needs to be polite, not just to me but to everyone. I watch that. How does he treat the waiter? How does he treat the coat-check girl? How does he treat the driver?

Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.

To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Politeness is the flower of humanity.

Don't keep your good manners to the end another time, but begin with them.

Civility costs nothing and buys everything.