Polite Quotes · Page 13

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

— Jude Law

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

— John Ramsay McCulloch

The Germans and Austrians are very polite, the Swiss are very reserved and the Spanish usually kiss me. The Brits write me…

— Donna Leon

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

— Philip J. Davis

Be polite to all, friendly to none. Be professional. Be ready to kill everyone and everything.

— Janet Morris

Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow.

— Jonathan Swift

How foolish to think that one can ever slam the door in the face of age. Much wiser to be polite and…

— Noel Coward

“Seek a man that doesn't ask you to prove your love. Seek a man that will prove God's love.”

— Shannon L. Alder

The only jobs kids have are to do well in school, to be charming and polite, and be thankful. That's it. I'll…

— Gene Simmons

Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you…

— Benny Goodman

I was an overly young father, is the most polite way of putting it. I think I was rather immature and all…

— Michael Morpurgo

A man needs to be polite, not just to me but to everyone. I watch that. How does he treat the waiter?…

— Adriana Lima

Just because I'm flaunting it doesn't mean you can stare for hours on end. A polite ogle is appreciated and suitable for…

— Katie MacAlister

The great thing about novels is that you can be as unshy as you want to be. I'm very polite in person.…

— Nicholson Baker

By going on the defensive. [...] libertarians are, inadvertently, conceding that speech should be policed for propriety, and that those who violate…

— Ilana Mercer

I'm always concerned that I'm not being nice enough. You know, people have told me I'm unfailingly polite...But I think those people…

— Michael Cera

Recipe for success: Be polite, prepare yourself for whatever you are asked to do, keep yourself tidy, be cheerful, don't be envious,…

— Bernard Baruch

the habit of generalizing from one particular, that mainstay of the cheap and obvious essayist, has rooted many fictions in the public…

— Kate Douglas Wiggin

So, to say Obama is progress is saying that he’s the first black person that is qualified to be president. That’s not…

— Chris Rock

Now the dressing-room full of RSC hierarchy. Suddenly Trevor Nunn pushes his way through and 'Trevs' me. I've heard a lot about…

— Antony Sher

The ladies pass the timee with gossip and hearsay. This is what they have in place of freedom- gime and gossip. Their…

— Libba Bray

In polite society, there is such a thing as sensitivity to some issues, as time has gone on. There was a time…

— Quentin Tarantino

For example, in Paris, if one desires to buy something, you enter the store and say "Good morning, sir" or "madam," depending…

— Craig Ferguson

“You seem worried. Do not be; this burly fellow is merely our waiter, and there is no need to reach under your…

— Moshin Hamid

The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to…

— Samuel L. Jackson

Being polite is so rare these days that its often confused with flirting..

— Ritu Ghatourey

To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite.

— Alexander Pope

Yanking his inner manwhore back to the land of polite conversating, he forced his hands to stop

— J.R. Ward

The path of Martial Arts begins and ends with courtesy. So be genuinely polite on every occasion.

— Mas Oyama

“I learned a lot about how to be frigidly polite and still leave somebody feeling like they’d been spanked.”

— Patricia C. Wrede

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

— Emily Post

All fame is is having people you don't know coming up to you and saying, 'Hello.' I'm always polite and people are…

— Karl Pilkington

A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.

— Oliver Goldsmith

I don't want to be polite. I don't think campaigning is polite. That's a disingenuous effort.

— Carl Paladino

.., by universal custom, your enemy is never more polite than when he is planning or has planned your destruction.

— James Clavell

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

— Susan George

The audience was swell. They were so polite they covered their mouths when they yawned.

— Bob Hope

“Ability does catches my attention, but its a politeness in the person that I remember.”

— Amit Kalantri

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.

— Malcolm Bradbury

There's no polite way to say to somebody (religious followers) 'Do you realize you've wasted your life?

— Daniel Dennett