When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel'.

It is so stupid of modern civilisation to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.

A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

The hall-mark of American humour is its pose of illiteracy.

When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel'.

A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials.

Only man has dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.

A baby is a loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations.

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.

The only true source of politeness is consideration.

Politeness is the flower of humanity.

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel'.

True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.

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

Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.

The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

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.

Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.

Politeness is organized indifference.

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

Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Callousness and insolence bring to bare unanimous social condemnation, while the simple efforts of politeness are admired; even in those who are otherwise despised.

Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.

Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.

Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately.

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

Politeness is the poison of collaboration.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.

Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.

In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people.

Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused.

All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.

Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.

A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors.

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist.

He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together.

The zeal, bravery, and good behavior of the officers and men on the night of June 30, and during July 1, was commendable in the extreme.

Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment.

Zeal will do more than knowledge.