• Politeness is fictitious benevolence. Depend upon it, the want of it never fails to produce something disagreeable to one or other.

    Samuel Johnson: Politeness is fictitious benevolence. Depend upon it, the want of it never fails to produce something disagreeable to one or other.
    James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (2006). “A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.200, Penguin UK