Polite Quotes

Polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing and solving our real problems.

People in France are very intrusive when they recognize you. In New York, they are very polite, with quick words, so it's great.

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.

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.

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

I've had fans come and knock on my door. I'm usually polite, but I'm usually very direct and say, 'It's not cool that you come here uninvited.

The concert is a polite form of self induced torture.

I've been polite and I've always shown up. Somebody asked me if I had any advice for young people entering the business. I said: "Yeah, show up.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet.

Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.

I want someone honest, someone who's very sweet to my family and friends, and polite to the other people around me.

I am trying to call attention to the elephant in the room that everybody is too polite - or too devout - to notice: religion, and specifically the devaluing effect that religion has on human life.

In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit.

We cannot become starched Christians, too polite, who speak of theology calmly over tea. We have to become courageous Christians and seek out those (who need help most).

The numbers are a catalyst that can help turn raving madmen into polite humans.

Glasgow is less polite than Edinburgh but that's a good thing - they keep it very real.

Men of polite learning and a liberal education.

A real gentleman is as polite to a little girl as to a woman.

This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.

The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment these are not virtues. The goal of the mannerly is comfort, per se.

Politics' the polite word for antediluvian prejudices, the rags put on by enmity and tribal resentment.

Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods that go beyond polite conversation.

In the sallies of badinage a polite fool shines; but in gravity he is as awkward as an elephant disporting.

I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.

There is this immediate connection, this intimacy when you're acting because there's no room to be polite or shy. Also, as an actor I get to connect with women I've never met before.

Women are sort of like motorcycle gangs with me. They get really shy and polite. I don't know why.

Curvy is just a polite way of saying fat.

I love to see a dedicated, loyal and a polite fans!

I find that those men who are personally most polite to women, who call them angels and all that, cherish in secret the greatest contempt for them.

The country has always been governed by a coalition but today it is governed by a so-called Grand Coalition which is a more polite word for all and sundry.

You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing.

In the first place you can be so absolutely honest and so absolutely wrong at the same time that I think it is better to be a combination of cautious and polite

Political correctness is what right-wing bigots call what everybody else calls being polite

Poetry is an act of distillation. It takes contingency samples, is selective. It telescopes time. It focuses what most often floods past us in a polite blur.

She wants to be polite and not hurt your feelings, so she's not going to laugh right now. But inside, inside she's laughing.

Normally when people say they haven't decided, they're being polite but they're definitely not voting for you. I think it's different this time. People are thinking hard about the issues.

A car to pick me up every day, a chair with my name on it, everybody being very polite... what can you do except sit back and watch it all, try to take it all in?

The three C's of leadership are Consideration,Caring,and Courtesy.Be polite to everyone.

I still like to see that a man opens the door. I like those touches of chivalry that are fast disappearing. If I sound old-fashioned, it's because I'm as old as I am! But it's just polite.

The English are busy; they don't have time to be polite.

Do what comes into your life and do it well... Be polite without groveling. If you are ever afraid of anything, do not deny it, but behave as if you feared nothing.

Argument should be polite as well as logical.

It confirms my idea that you also need more liberal gun laws. Guns lead to a polite society, as we like to say in the United States. And I think that all of western Canada would agree with me.

A lot of our lives are about being polite.

To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite.

Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - to be on fire, like Juliet or Guinevere or Eloise.

Books are necessary to correct the vices of the polite; but those vices are ever changing, and the antidote should be changed accordingly should still be new.

To use a big word or a foreign word when a small one and a familiar one will answer the same purpose, is a sign of ignorance. Great scholars and writers and polite speakers use simple words.

When you sit face to face with someone who is pleasant, respectful, and polite, you have hard time reminding yourself that nothing he says is true/sincere.