Polite Quotes

Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

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

Balanced is probably what I am, although that's just a polite way to say that you don't do anything very well.

I don't write polite letters. I don't like to plea-bargain. I like to fight.

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.

And opposite the bench, the dock, divided by a partition, with the women to the left and the men to the right, as it is on the stairs or the block in polite society.

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

No language is rude that can boast polite writers.

Comedy isn't polite and it isn't correct and it isn't accurate, even. It's just a mess. So that's the way that I approach it.

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.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

Swedes are such a civilised, perfect society - at least on the surface. There's a great safety net, a huge middle class, free education, free health care. People are very polite, they wait their turn. They're not too loud, they're not too quiet, but sometimes it's a little too perfect.

I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people.

In Japan, you have no idea what they are saying, and they can't help you either. Nothing makes any sense. They're very polite, but you feel like a joke is being played on you the entire time you're there.

The nerves are a problem on trumpet, because when you mess up everyone can hear it. Just remember most people are too polite to say anything about it. That should calm your nerves.

I am the common man. I'm polite, I love my family and I play by the rules. And sometimes I get pushed around. That's my lifestyle, and that's what I try to bring to characters.

Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.

Men of polite learning and a liberal education.

It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.

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

In polite society one laughs at all the jokes, including the ones one has heard before.

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

Tequila. Straight. There's a real polite drink. You keep drinking until you finally take one more and it just won't go down. Then you know you've reached your limit.

Especially these days where everything is so polite and so proper, I think that rites of passage are good.

Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet.

Sometimes if you have very confident people, you have to tell them please, be polite, there are other players are good enough as you and you should never speak out of an orchestra.

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.

My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous.

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.