I get very annoyed when people think I'm nice or diffident or a polite English gentleman. I'm a nasty piece of work,… — Hugh Grant Copy Share Image
Only a person with convictions has a genuine possibility to be tolerant. He who accepts no absolute values but clings to polite… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it's… — Miriam Makeba Copy Share Image
Polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing and solving our real… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
I wonder if it changes the nature of a society for beauty to be so common. Maybe in Vietnam "She has a… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
It's one of the advantages of being a woman. I get to do all sorts of unfair things, and you have to… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
I really don't understand minimalism. It is so polite and boring. If you don't want anyone to notice you, you should stay… — Roberto Cavalli Copy Share Image
Years ago, I was performing, and people kept calling out for 'Puppy Love' and I just didn't want to. Then I thought… — Donny Osmond Copy Share Image
I don't worry too much about what people think about my image, but I think I am pretty polite. My colleagues say… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
I know, I say, after he says, This is hard, for the third time. This is what happens when you have a… — Kathryn Erskine Copy Share Image
I tell you these stories because these things happen to everyone. It's not about being starched or polished or cute or polite.… — Maira Kalman Copy Share Image
There were times when I asked myself whether I was being principled or simply a coward… I was wrapped in the cocoon… — Arthur Ashe Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular opinion, Christians are not nice polite people who never get angry with one another. Those are not the virtues… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
I'm often at odds with my colleagues, but I've managed to get legislation passed which will not even be attempted in other… — Ernie Chambers Copy Share Image
The hundred-point man is one who is true to every trust; who keeps his word; who is loyal to the firm that… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at Pearl Harbor's officers' mess and are very polite. They always were. Except,… — William Manchester Copy Share Image
I always find that I'm less sarcastic in France and maybe I'm a bit more shy and a bit more reserved, even… — Freya Mavor Copy Share Image
It was always so hot, and everyone was so polite, and everything was all surface but underneath it was like a bomb… — James McBride Copy Share Image
Personally, I don't want to do a lot of angel deals in a year. I get approached a lot. I'm becoming less… — Jim McKelvey Copy Share Image
I always had that adolescent notion that I had to get out of Texas. But I'm really glad I grew up there.… — Sarah Shahi Copy Share Image
It’s considered perfectly normal in this society to approach dying people who you don’t know but who are unbelievers and say, ‘Now… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
When you sit face to face with someone who is pleasant, respectful, and polite, you have hard time reminding yourself that nothing… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I have never been able to understand why pigeon-shooting at Hurlingham should be refined and polite, while a rat-killing match in Whitechapel… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The pursuit of truth is just a polite name for the intellectual's favorite pastime of substituting simple and therefore false abstractions for… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
When asked her view of cosmetic surgery, Carmen Dell'Orefice replies, '”That's a very polite way of asking me, I'm sure, ‘Have you… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
I think that when you are accused of being in bad taste it can be quite positive. You're challenging the notions of… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
There is this immediate connection, this intimacy when you're acting because there's no room to be polite or shy. Also, as an… — Jessica Chastain Copy Share Image
I think if anything I am perhaps more inclined than most people are to be polite and considerate because I am aware… — Alex Colville Copy Share Image
The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I did think reviewers were supposed to be polite about story collections - collections are rather delicate creatures in the literary environment… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Do unto others as you would have done unto you. Manners aren't anything but a polite person being nice, no matter what… — Sarah-Kate Lynch Copy Share Image
Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - to be… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Citizens everywhere, and especially soldiers, should remember that entrenched bureaucracy, whatever the level, can be overcome. You've got to stick to it,… — William G. Bainbridge Copy Share Image
Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those...who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient and… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
In the tropics the white feels weakened, or downright weak, whence comes the heightened tendency to outbursts of aggression. People who are… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
Shane settled his flamethrower more comfortably on his shoulders. “Ladies? After you.” “Rude,” Claire said. “I was being polite!” “Not when you… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
As youngsters, my mother taught her children that while we might not be the smartest people around, we could be courteous, polite… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
If an armed nation were a polite nation, America would be paradise. We have more than 200 million guns in private owernship… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
