Polite Quotes

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.

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

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

Men of polite learning and a liberal education.

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.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

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.

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.

When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine that he is polite all the time.

The concert is a polite form of self induced torture.

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.

Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.

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

It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.

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

And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it's third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, it's much more polite.

The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did.

In Sweden everybody has this perfect surface. Everyone's very polite and controls their feelings.

Polite conversation is rarely either.

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

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

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.

Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change.

It is harder to lie in an interview. A good interview - and it can be polite - is not a one way street like a candidate controlled ad. An interview is not programmed by the candidate and so the candidate can't be exactly sure what will be asked.