polite communication Quotes

Many policemen have not completed their education, and the university can help them on this front. Education will enable them to speak well and politely to the people.

You know what takes effort? Being kind, being patient, being respectful, telling someone how you feel politely instead of just avoiding them for six weeks.

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

You don't want to be rude but you have to be careful - there are a lot of strange people out there. (Goldman attributes this quote to Cliff Robertson.)

It's just like with people. You're going to get along better working with them - human or equine - if you ask politely rather than demand that they do things.

Sophistication demands honesty; it does not require ill temper.

We tend to assume that we have a baseline of speech that's going to be normal in all contexts, but the truth is, we all change our ways of speaking depending on who we're talking to. And so I think it's kind of a gesture of politeness to the people you're speaking to to try to say something in their own idiom.

I believe that anyone using the phrase 'That's so cool' should have to stand in the corner.