"When politeness is used to show up other people, it is reclassified as rudeness. Thus it is technically impossible to be too polite."

-- Judith Martin

#People Quotes #Impossible Quotes #Rudeness Quotes

“It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person.”

Source : Paul Watzlawick, John H. Weakland, Richard Fisch (2011). “Change: Principles of Problem Formation and Problem Resolution”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company
“Good hairstylists never die. Vidal Sassoon and Paul Mitchell will always live on.”
“Every species has a dinner date as part of courting ritual. A woman who won't let you pay for dinner is rejecting your courtship. She may think she's playing fair, or that she's being a feminist, but a very deep level, she knows that she's crossing you off her list of possibilities.”
“When people in Washington say they're going to take away my guns, they better bring theirs if they're going to take mine.”
“Observations of the sickening effect of programmed environments show that people in them become indolent, impotent, narcissistic and apolitical. The political process breaks down, because people cease to be able to govern themselves; they demand to be managed.”
“Times have changed since a certain author was executed for murdering his publisher. They say that when the author was on the scaffold he said good-bye to the minister and to the reporters, and then he saw some publishers sitting in the front row below, and to them he did not say good-bye. He said instead, "I'll see you again."”
“American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100 degrees centigrade in plastic thermos cups, usually obligatory in railroad stations for purposes of genocide, whereas coffee made with an American percolator, such as you find in private houses or in humble luncheonettes, served with eggs and bacon, is delicious, fragrant, goes down like pure spring water, and afterwards causes severe palpitations, because one cup contains more caffeine than four espressos.”
“I'm a pretty young person, but I think you need a little life experience to actually say something.”

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