P. G. Wodehouse Quotes on Politeness
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We do not tell old friends beneath our roof-tree that they are an offence to the eyesight.
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'I don't want to seem always to be criticizing your methods of voice production, Jeeves,' I said, 'but I must inform you that that 'Well, sir' of yours is in many respects fully as unpleasant as your 'Indeed, sir?' Like the latter, it seems to be tinged with a definite scepticism. It suggests a lack of faith in my vision. The impression I retain after hearing you shoot it at me a couple of times is that you consider me to be talking through the back of my neck, and that only a feudal sense of what is fitting restrains you from substituting for it the words 'Says you!''
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'Stinko, is he?' 'Not perhaps stinko, but certainly effervescent.'