Nothing is more noble than politeness, and nothing more ridiculous

Nothing is more noble than politeness, and nothing more ridiculous than ceremony. – Proverb

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Manners
category

Of course, behaviorism works. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviorist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public. – W. H. Auden

Category:
Manners

I can be very polite, but Ive found that doesnt always get a result. You have got to bang and thump tables. – Joy Baluch

Category:
Manners

Whoever one is, and wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude. – Maurice Baring

Category:
Manners

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax. – Arthur Schopenhauer

Category:
Manners

Random Quotes

If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. Theyre soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part. – Hannah More

Category:
Faith

I think that technology has both introduced new sounds but also allowed an increasingly painterly approach to recording music as you can now paint over what youve done and more and more refine an existing performance. – Jerry Harrison

Category:
Technology

Those who knew Lincoln described him as an extraordinarily funny man. Humor was an essential aspect of his temperament. He laughed, he explained, so he did not weep. – Doris Kearns Goodwin

Category:
Humor

If people were meant to pop out of bed, we’d all sleep in toasters. – Author unknown, attributed to Jim Davis

Category:
Morning