Voltaire Quotes

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

Politeness is deception in pretty packaging.

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.

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

You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.

Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.

Courtesy is breeding. Breeding is an excellent thing. Always remember that.

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

Good manners reflect something from inside-an innate sense of consideration for others and respect for self.

Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.

In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved.

The greater the controversy, the more you need manners.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

I find it upsetting to see the erosion of manners. It's very scary. Where are the 'pleases' and 'thank yous?'

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.

I never let my politics supersede my manners.

I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.

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

For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.

You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

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

The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.