"Politesse" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... ce que je perds avec un regret tres-vif, le plaisir de voir Mr. Smith. Ce charming philosopher vous dira combien il a d'esprit, car je le defie de parler sans en montrer. Je sui vraiment fachee que la politesse m'oblige a lui donner ma lettre ouverte: cet usage etabli retient mon coeur tout pret a lui rendre justice, mais sa modestie est aussi grande que son merite, et je craindrois que la plus simple verite ne ...
— Life of Adam Smith • John Rae
... 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 ...
— Quatre contes de Prosper Mrime • F. C. L. Van Steenderen
... awestruck admiration The gallant way in which you faced the press, What force, what vigour, what determination, What almost everything but politesse; And then I gave back several hasty inches Before your maenad rush; I felt alarmed Lest you should use a hatpin in the clinches While I was ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, May 12, 1920 • Various
... French had originated in his youth, when cardinal, from having been detected in the library of an eminent French collector, of having purloined a most rare volume. The delirium of a collector's rage overcame even French politesse; the Frenchman not only openly accused his illustrious culprit, but was resolved that he should not quit the library without replacing the precious volume—from accusation and denial both resolved to try their strength: but in this literary ...
— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 (of 3) • Isaac D'Israeli
... illustres Franoises, histoires veritables. O l'on trouve, dan des caracteres tres-particuliers & fort differens, un grand nombre d'exemples rares & extraordinares des belles manieres, de la politesse. ALa Haye, Hondt, 1713. ...
— The Library of William Congreve • John C. Hodges
... 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
... through the right-hand swing-door. But no! It was for season-ticket holders. She must go to the left. The middle door was for those coming out. A fat man, hurrying brusquely in before her, let the swing-door slam in her face. "Le joueur n'a ni politesse, ni sexe," was a proverb of the "Rooms" which Mary Grant had never heard, but ...
— The Guests Of Hercules • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... and a great deal wiser.' This was an assault upon one of Lord Monboddo's capital dogmas, and I was afraid there would have been a violent altercation in the very close, before we got into the house. But his lordship is distinguished not only for 'ancient metaphysicks', but for ancient politesse, la vieille cour, ...
— The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. • James Boswell |
