Polite Quotes
- Page 2Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change.
Walter Isaacson
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.
Greta Van Susteren
Especially these days where everything is so polite and so proper, I think that rites of passage are good.
Emile Hirsch
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
Robert A. Heinlein
No one who is at all acquainted with the Indian in his home can deny that we are a polite people.
Charles Eastman
Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at Pearl Harbor's officers' mess and are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945.
William Manchester
Making an effort is polite, and getting ready and looking after yourself makes an event more fun.
Jude Law
It is something that most parents hope for in life: That their children will be moderately successful, polite, decent human beings. Anything on top of that is something you have no right to hope for, but we all do.
Jerry Kramer
There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.
George Santayana
I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.
Nadia Giosia
Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them.
John Barton
When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine that he is polite all the time.
E. W. Howe
In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
Rachel Weisz
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.'
Gary Allan
People in France are very intrusive when they recognize you. In New York, they are very polite, with quick words, so it's great.
Audrey Tautou
My fans are pretty normal, they are always really nice and polite, and they don't interrupt my meals.
Drew Carey
Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.
Benny Goodman
I would say L.A. is more polite than London - it's a very careful place. People talk a lot in code.
Tom Hooper
I'm okay. Nobody's bothering me. Everyone's very kind, and very polite. I don't feel like my whole life changed.
Berenice Bejo
Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.
Jean Kerr
A man needs to be polite, not just to me but to everyone. I watch that. How does he treat the waiter? How does he treat the coat-check girl? How does he treat the driver?
Adriana Lima
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.
Lamar Hunt