politeness quotes

L'exactitude est la politesse des rois. Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

-Louis XVI
Quoted in Souvenirs de J Lafitte (1844), bk.1, ch.3.

The French are polite, but it is often mere ceremonious politeness. A Russian imbues his polite things with a heartiness that compels belief in their sincerity.

- Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens Twain
  The Innocents Abroad.