Polite Quotes

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

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.

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.

It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.

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.

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.

Especially these days where everything is so polite and so proper, I think that rites of passage are good.

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.