Polite Quotes

I'm brash and abrasive but that's because I've noticed when people are nice and polite they never get anywhere.

Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.

'Tis happy for him that his Father was born before him.

Etiquette is the ceremonial code of polite life, more voluminous and minute in each portion of society according to its rank.

There is no polite way to suggest to someone that they have devoted their life to a folly.

Sometimes we are too polite with our suffering and allow it to dominate our life.

I wasn't entirely sure, but a polite John Pritkin might be a sign of the apocalypse.

Politics is the polite way of telling somone else they’re stupid.

In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies.

It's not considered polite in Russia to count the money in someone else's pocket.

I am a very frank person and that's how I hope to remain. I don't like to pretend to be polite. What you see is what you get.

When thanksgiving is filled with true meaning and is not just the formality of a polite 'thank you,' it is the recognition of dependence.

For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.

If you're going to kill the animal it seems only polite to use the whole thing.

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

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

I find it very eerie when somebody is being really polite.

A community where everyone is a ruthless murderer, with handy access to death-dealing devices, is a very polite community.

An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.

You have to be polite with your friends and your family, but in your art, it's important to not be polite.

I do have traditional values: I believe in being a good person and being polite.

I've never had a meth habit, I don't walk around naked, and unless I'm actively provoked, I'm generally polite and well-spoken.

And the name of the one shall be Fearfulness. And the name of the other shall be Arrogance... Well, clearly you are not Fearfulness, so I suppose you must be Arrogance.' This was not very polite.

It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.

It is not very polite to interrupt a person, of course, but sometimes if the person is very unpleasant you can hardly stop yourself.

I think I've realized that business and being polite [don't] match. You can be fair, but me being polite was not me being fair to myself.

I ain't saying you're a liar, because that wouldn't be polite. But I'll tell you this, ma'am. If I loved liars, I'd hug you to death.

Death is never polite, even when we expect it.

I have seen people rude by being over-polite.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

A lot of our lives are about being polite.

Political correctness is what right-wing bigots call what everybody else calls being polite

The English are busy; they don't have time to be polite.

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

I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.

Do what comes into your life and do it well... Be polite without groveling. If you are ever afraid of anything, do not deny it, but behave as if you feared nothing.

Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet.

Men of polite learning and a liberal education.

Alas! it is true: "Be polite to bores and so shall you have bores always round about you."

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.

I'm big on my kids being conventionally polite, and it works really well for them.

If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered.

A question is a polite way of demanding something.

Americans are incredibly polite as long as they get what they want.

We must stop being polite and behaved and find new inventive tactics to shift the paradigm. We are the majority.

What are sisters for if not to point out the things the rest of the world is too polite to mention.

As a person, I'm polite - I want to please.

We pretend that no one's a racist anymore, but it's easier to talk about pornography in polite company than racial integration

My only hope was to be polite.

He was so excessively polite that Wallendar suspected he had endured many humiliations in his life.