Polite Quotes

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.