Ambrose Bierce's Quote - Politeness — The most acceptable hypocrisy. – Ambrose Bierce

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Politeness -- The most acceptable hypocrisy. - Ambrose Bierce

Politeness — The most acceptable hypocrisy. – Ambrose Bierce

Other quotes by Ambrose Bierce

The covers of this book are too far apart. – Ambrose Bierce

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Enthusiasm – a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience. – Ambrose Bierce

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Saint. A dead sinner revised and edited. – Ambrose Bierce

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He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest. – Walter Benjamin

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Visitors should behave in such a way that the host and hostess feel at home. – J.S. Farynski

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Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth. – Malcolm Bradbury

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