Proverbs, sayings etc.

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"To find out what others are feeling, don't prod or poke. If you want play with a turtle, you can't get it to come out of its shell by prodding and poking it with a stick, you might kill it. Be gentle not harsh, hard or forceful." - Source Unknown


"Politeness -- The most acceptable hypocrisy." - Ambrose Bierce

"A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude." Oscar Wilde

"(A gentleman) is any man who wouldn’t hit a woman with his hat on." Fred Allen

"Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite." Jean Kerr

"When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite." Winston Churchill |

"There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far." George Santayana |

"Rudeness is not something people take lightly," said Caldwell, "and that almost seems to be hard-wired into us."

"When you feel that the people you are dealing with day to day don't have manners, it gives you the feeling that the world is somehow coming apart," said Tannen. "It makes you feel that everything is out of control."

"Too much politeness conceals deceit." Chinese proverb

"One can conceal a murder but not impoliteness." Chinese proverb

"When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine that he is polite all the time." Edgar Watson Howe

"Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other." Mark Twain

"Polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing and solving our real problems." Martha Beck

“Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.” Honore de Balzac