John Edwards Quotes

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

Among well-bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his turn; and an easy stream of conversation maintained without vehemence, without interruption, without eagerness for victory, and without any airs of superiority

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

I don't aim to offend.

The greater the controversy, the more you need manners.

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

I never let my politics supersede my manners.

There's no excuse for rudeness.

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

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

I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.

Civility is not simply about manners.

Only once in my life was I on the edge of incivility. I do not like to be unkind.

To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.

For the most part, I think of PC as meaning Plain Civil. You treat people the way you'd like to be treated yourself, and that means not using language that is demeaning.

Above all gentlemen, not too much zeal.

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.

Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.

I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy.

to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.

Politeness. Now there's a poor man's virtue if ever there was one. What's so admirable about inoffensiveness, I should like to know. After all, it's easily achieved. One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else. People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think about them.

Observe with both friend and foe the ordinary rules of courtesy.

My only hope was to be polite.

Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.

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