Adolfo Aguilar Zinser Quotes

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

To be rude to someone is not my nature.

To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.

I believe you should always be polite when you ask a question. I totally believe that.

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

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.

Be polite. Write diplomatically. Even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

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.

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

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.

I'm polite.

Be able to decline a date so gracefully that the person isn't embarrassed that he or she asked.

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.

The greater the controversy, the more you need manners.

I try not to be a jerk. I really do. I try to be nice and cordial.

I want a gentleman. Someone with manners.

Obviously I'm going to be polite, so nobody has anything to fear from me.

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.

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

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

A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed.

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

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