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I'm brash and abrasive but that's because I've noticed when people are nice and polite they never get anywhere.
Mahathir Mohamad
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'Tis happy for him that his Father was born before him.
Jonathan Swift
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Etiquette is the ceremonial code of polite life, more voluminous and minute in each portion of society according to its rank.
John Ramsay McCulloch
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There is no polite way to suggest to someone that they have devoted their life to a folly.
Daniel Dennett
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I wasn't entirely sure, but a polite John Pritkin might be a sign of the apocalypse.
Karen Chance
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Politics is the polite way of telling somone else they’re stupid.
Burnie Burns
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In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies.
Stephen King
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It's not considered polite in Russia to count the money in someone else's pocket.
Vladimir Putin
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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.
Fan Bingbing
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When thanksgiving is filled with true meaning and is not just the formality of a polite 'thank you,' it is the recognition of dependence.
Billy Graham
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Balanced is probably what I am, although that's just a polite way to say that you don't do anything very well.
Steve Yzerman
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If you're going to kill the animal it seems only polite to use the whole thing.
Fergus Henderson
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A community where everyone is a ruthless murderer, with handy access to death-dealing devices, is a very polite community.
Robert A. Heinlein
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An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
Hippocrates
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I do have traditional values: I believe in being a good person and being polite.
FKA twigs
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You have to be polite with your friends and your family, but in your art, it's important to not be polite.
Lisa Yuskavage
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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.
Susanna Clarke
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It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
Niels Bohr
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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.
Jim Goad
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It is not very polite to interrupt a person, of course, but sometimes if the person is very unpleasant you can hardly stop yourself.
Daniel Handler
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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.
Beyonce Knowles
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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.
Jim Thompson
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Death is never polite, even when we expect it.
Tiny Tim
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Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
Sinclair Lewis
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I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.
Jessica Hagedorn
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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.
Anna Lee
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Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet.
Thelma Ritter
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Men of polite learning and a liberal education.
Matthew Henry
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Political correctness is what right-wing bigots call what everybody else calls being polite
Iain Banks
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If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered.
Stephen King
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Alas! it is true: "Be polite to bores and so shall you have bores always round about you."
Emily Post
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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.
Louis C. K.
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I'm big on my kids being conventionally polite, and it works really well for them.
Mayim Bialik
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We must stop being polite and behaved and find new inventive tactics to shift the paradigm. We are the majority.
Eve Ensler
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What are sisters for if not to point out the things the rest of the world is too polite to mention.
Claire Cook
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Americans are incredibly polite as long as they get what they want.
Ben Fountain
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The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don't want to be.
Eric Clapton
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Emily Post says that talking about oneself isn't very polite.' 'I'm sure Miss Post is perfectly correct, but that doesn't seem to stop the rest of us.
Amor Towles
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Yanking his inner manwhore back to the land of polite conversating, he forced his hands to stop
J.R. Ward