"Politesse" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 1885 LA POLITESSE. Another address. This one was given at Clermont- Ferrand, and was published on August 5, 1885, in the local paper Moniteur du Puy de Dome. It is of interest because in it is to be found his original view of "Grace" which he developed ...
— Bergson and His Philosophy • J. Alexander Gunn
... The beasts I mean are far less tame than theirs. Change Alley Bruins, nattier though their dress, Might at Polito's study politesse. Brief let me be. My gentle Sampson, pray, Fight Larry Whack, but ...
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb IV - Poems and Plays • Charles and Mary Lamb
... protested the Cardinal. "There is a thing the French call politesse. I can conceive a young man professing to agree with a lady for the sake of what the French might ...
— The Cardinal's Snuff-Box • Henry Harland
... matelot qui savait un peu la langue yolofe[2], servit d'interprte. Les premiers compliments de politesse changs, un mousse apporta un panier de bouteilles d'eau-de-vie; on but, et le capitaine, pour mettre Tamango en belle humeur, lui fit prsent d'une jolie poire poudre en cuivre, orne du portrait de Napolon en relief. Le prsent accept avec la reconnaissance convenable, on sortit ...
— Quatre contes de Prosper Mrime • F. C. L. Van Steenderen
... to him of order and arrangement; and why, apart from felicities and curiosities of diction, the old rhetoricians laid such stress upon order and arrangement as duties we owe to those who honour us with their attention. 'La clarte,' says a French writer, 'est la politesse.' [Greek: Charisi kai sapheneia thue], recommends Lucian. Pay your sacrifice to the Graces, and to ...
— On the Art of Writing - Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914 • Arthur Quiller-Couch
... a tongue that's smoothly hung, A heart that warmly seems to feel; That feeling heart but acts a part— 'Tis rakish art in Rob Mossgiel. The frank address, the soft caress, Are worse than poisoned darts of steel; The frank address, and politesse, Are all finesse in ...
— Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns • Robert Burns |
