Polite Quotes

Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.

A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.

No one who is at all acquainted with the Indian in his home can deny that we are a polite people.

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.

Making an effort is polite, and getting ready and looking after yourself makes an event more fun.

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.

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

The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don't want to be.

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

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.

Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them.

The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.

In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.

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.'

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

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

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

My fans are pretty normal, they are always really nice and polite, and they don't interrupt my meals.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

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.

I would say L.A. is more polite than London - it's a very careful place. People talk a lot in code.

I'm okay. Nobody's bothering me. Everyone's very kind, and very polite. I don't feel like my whole life changed.

No language is rude that can boast polite writers.

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?

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.

Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children.

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?

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

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.

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