Polite Quotes

You don't take your cat with you to go bird shopping. Not because the cat isn't polite, but because he's a cat.

The fans in the United States, they are, well, more polite. The fans in Argentina can get, well, crazy.

Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions. Vigilantly practice polite indifference to that which we can't control. Your happiness can only be found within.

An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.

Texas, to be respected must be polite. Santa Anna living, can be of incalculable benefit to Texas; Santa Anna dead, would just be another dead Mexican.

An armed society is a polite society.

Smoking is very bad for you and should only be done because it looks so good. People who don't smoke have a terrible time finding something polite to do with their lips.

I do have traditional values: I believe in being a good person and being polite.

What a polite game tennis is. The chief word in it seems to be "sorry" and admiration of each other's play crosses the net as frequently as the ball.

I was a very polite schoolgirl who did her work very well and hid under tables. I'd hate to think I haven't changed at all.

A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.

No language is rude that can boast polite writers.

You have to be polite with your friends and your family, but in your art, it's important to not be polite.

There's no chivalry in culture any more. Sometimes you meet someone who everyone says is polite and you're like, 'Wow,' but then it's like, 'Hang on, isn't everyone supposed to be polite?'

There's no polite way to say to somebody (religious followers) 'Do you realize you've wasted your life?

How foolish to think that one can ever slam the door in the face of age. Much wiser to be polite and gracious and ask him to lunch in advance.

No use to preach to the working-man courtesy & politeness when at the same time the working-man is not given working conditions under which he can stay polite and soft-mannered.

Be polite to all, friendly to none. Be professional. Be ready to kill everyone and everything.

I hope somewhere along the way, I've inspired someone to do something. ... And I hope they say that I was nice and polite.

I feel very uncomfortable when I eat in restaurants. I'm obnoxiously polite with the waiters: 'I just want a tuna sandwich. I'll go get it. You sit here - I'll get it, I'll make it.

Without religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company, I mean Hell.

And the name of the one shall be Fearfulness. And the name of the other shall be Arrogance... Well, clearly you are not Fearfulness, so I suppose you must be Arrogance.' This was not very polite.

You're a big boy, you ought to understand that punctual transport, public order and safe streets, polite people and good medical services are all the achievements of dictatorship.

And I think because there is an essence of me that cares about other people and what other people think then that then makes me seem very sweet and polite.

That quality is what makes women great collaborators; we understand it's a team effort. Even if it comes from society telling us to be polite.

You ask me about my ex-wife? That is not polite. But I will answer. I got another wife now. Much younger, much nicer, much prettier. And so much more intelligent than Benetton.'

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

.., by universal custom, your enemy is never more polite than when he is planning or has planned your destruction.

I can be very polite, and I think that people can confuse that for all sorts of things... But I'll take that over people assuming that I'm smart just because I'm short and rude.

You can't compare a Super Bowl crowd, which tends to be more polite and a little more neutral to that. The Super Bowl only has 7,000 to 8,000 fans for each team.

A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion.

Polite conservationists leave no mark save the scars upon the Earth that could have been prevented had they stood their ground.

Chi-Os were ideal partners for all occasions. They were discrete, desirable, tactful, polite, and fun... Every mom dreamed of her son coming home with a Chi Omega, a woman's woman.

Making an effort is polite, and getting ready and looking after yourself makes an event more fun.

No one who is at all acquainted with the Indian in his home can deny that we are a polite people.

Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.

The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple it, and make it forever infamous and ridiculous.

The common people say, that physicians are the class of people who kill other men in the most polite and courteous manner.

I do not see why I should be polite to tyrants, who slobber of humanitarianism and think only of their own petty interests.

It is not very polite to interrupt a person, of course, but sometimes if the person is very unpleasant you can hardly stop yourself.

To act in a way both sexist and racist, to maintain one's class privilege, it is only necessary to act in the customary, ordinary, usual, even polite manner.

There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.

I think I've realized that business and being polite [don't] match. You can be fair, but me being polite was not me being fair to myself.

The secret of a happy marriage is simple: Just keep on being as polite to one another as you are to your friends.

My mom always taught me to be sweet and polite and cross my legs because it's what the guys like. Actually, they like a raunchy girl once in a while.

Please be polite. Nothing in life should erode the habit of saying thank you to people or praising them.

I ain't saying you're a liar, because that wouldn't be polite. But I'll tell you this, ma'am. If I loved liars, I'd hug you to death.

To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.

Death is never polite, even when we expect it.

If an armed nation were a polite nation, America would be paradise. We have more than 200 million guns in private owernship here. But our manners are not getting better.