Irwin Edman Quotes

Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.

'GQ,' you've been patiently and stylishly educating me forever. To be truly stylish, you have to be kind and courteous.

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.

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

I always say it's much nicer to win by shaking a man's hand rather than slapping him in the face.

Politeness is sometimes a great tax upon sincerity.

Fair words cost nothing.

You can choose to be civil or not be civil. What is the point of going through the day and think it's cool to wear your honesty on your sleeve at the expense of everyone around you?

One of the marks of maturity is the ability to disagree without becoming disagreeable

Politeness only teaches us to save others from unnecessary pain.... You are not bound by politeness to tell any falsehoods.

People can smell a lack of respect from a mile away.

It is a mark of a superior mind to be able to disagree without being disagreeable.

One of the blessings of maturity is that it sometimes brings one greater courage to be truthful, regardless of what those who do not understand may think or say

Opinion! If every one had so little tact as to give their true opinion when it was asked this would be a miserable world.

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.

Manners are the ornament of action.

Good-breeding shows itself most where to an ordinary eye it appears the least.

In high school, I used to think it was "like sooooo cool" if a guy had an awesome car. Now none of that matters. These days I look for character and honesty and trust.

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.

Good manners are a sign of strength.

such is the effect of true politeness, that it banishes all restraint and embarassment.

When will conventional good manners become attractive? When will ladies of fashion exhibit their shoulders a little less and their affability and wit a little more?