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Letter "P" » politeness
«When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected ''I believe'' to ''One does feel.''»
Author: Ronald Knox
(Theologian, Writer)
| Keywords:
bigot, bigots, corrected, politeness, suave, tempering, zeal
«The only true source of politeness is consideration.»
Author: William Gilmore Simms
| Keywords:
politeness
«True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can»
«That roguish and cheerful vice, politeness.»
«Though they did not kiss, / Yet still between his Darkness and his Brightness / There passed a mutual glance of great politeness.»
«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.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
charitable, edifices, politeness, ungraceful
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