Polite Quotes

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

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

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

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

Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.

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.

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

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.