“Most of us are ready to greet our worst enemies like long-lost brothers if we think they can show us a good… — Budd Schulberg Copy Share Image
I've had so many experiences where everyone is very polite about each other's working process, which can lead to work where everyone… — Hattie Morahan Copy Share Image
You lose nothing by being polite. The answer is 'No', but please say it politely and give the reasons. ... Explain to… — Mr. Lee Copy Share Image
We cannot become starched Christians, too polite, who speak of theology calmly over tea. We have to become courageous Christians and seek… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Jazz was formerly a crude term for indulging in an action which in polite society is referred to, if at all, only… — Charlton Laird Copy Share Image
Being polite is not only the right way to respond to people but also the easiest. Life is so filled with unavoidable… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
A dearth of words a woman need not fear; But 'tis a task indeed to learn to hear: In that the skill… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
How's it going down there?" "It's weird. They're too polite, they talk funny, and stuff has too much shine on it. But… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even in half demon hunter clothes, Clary thought, he looked like the kind of boy who'd come over your house to pick… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I think the strangest thing probably is when I went to Japan, and I don't know what the hell I was eating,… — Cassandra Peterson Copy Share Image
There are different levels of fame. There are the polite fans who quietly and respectfully approach you and ask for an autograph… — Robert B. Weide Copy Share Image
The evening was very professionally organized, and most of the people were exceptionally polite, although it did make me a little nervous… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
It's disquieting to reflect that one's dreams never symbolize one's real wishes, but always something Much Worse... If I really wanted to… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The American people are not naifs who yearn for isolationism, but they are starting to ask some hard questions about the way… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
Anyone who thinks we can continue to have world wars but make them nice polite affairs by outlawing this weapon or that… — Joel Henry Hildebrand Copy Share Image
“When people related by blood were so careful with each other, when they were so very polite, there was soon nothing left… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I had long ago learned that when you are the giant, alien visitor to a remote and foreign culture it is sort… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
You're a big boy, you ought to understand that punctual transport, public order and safe streets, polite people and good medical services… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
You can go back 150 years and literally find the same people saying the same thing in the same way. "If we… — Nick Hanauer Copy Share Image
The fifties were when people started coming down on "juvenile delinquents," "hoodlums," "vandals"--anybody that was young, wore a motorcycle jacket, and didn't… — Joe Bob Briggs Copy Share Image
You rang, Mino- well, you’re not really the Minor Master anymore, are you? What should I call you? (Asmodeus) Think of a… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I only asked my friends to be friendly and polite, I found them indifferent and censorious; The one I left to silence,… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
Liz cleared her throat. "Isn't there a more polite term we're supposed to use nowadays? Like…little person, or vertically challenged,or-" "I'm not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
D.C. fans, I think, are so good. They just come up to me, and they're so nice and so polite and just,… — Bryce Harper Copy Share Image
I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for… — John Updike Copy Share Image
If you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I feel very uncomfortable when I eat in restaurants. I'm obnoxiously polite with the waiters: 'I just want a tuna sandwich. I'll… — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
The uber polite people who are the neighbors to our north and how we can be so different and yet so the… — Tamlyn Tomita Copy Share Image
“As a Texan, I say ma'm and sir to my age contemporaries and open doors for anyone that I can. This goes… — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
In Japan, you have no idea what they are saying, and they can't help you either. Nothing makes any sense. They're very… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
To use a big word or a foreign word when a small one and a familiar one will answer the same purpose,… — Joseph Devlin Copy Share Image
I get recognized in the street really frequently, which is really shocking. I'm excruciatingly wary of any female under the age of… — Ian Harding Copy Share Image
Seattle is a liberal city, its politics not so much blue (in the American, not the British, sense) as deep ultramarine, and… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
Don't be polite. Bite in. Pick it up with your fingers and lick the juice that may run down your chin. It… — Eve Merriam Copy Share Image
I am terribly British. Especially in the eyes of Americans. I drink several gallons of tea a day, I'm often excessively polite… — Rhianna Pratchett Copy Share Image
Swedes are such a civilised, perfect society - at least on the surface. There's a great safety net, a huge middle class,… — Alexander Skarsgard Copy Share Image
The Irish are hearty, the Scotch plausible, the French polite, the Germans good-natured, the Italians courtly, the Spaniards reserved and decorous -… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I am trying to call attention to the elephant in the room that everybody is too polite - or too devout -… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Sometimes if you have very confident people, you have to tell them please, be polite, there are other players are good enough… — Kurt Masur Copy Share Image
But I don't want to be fine, not if it means she's going to let go of my hand; not if it… — Tabitha Suzuma Copy Share Image
