Polite Quotes · Page 8

“When your family is twice as weird as normal, you have to be twice as polite to authority, because authority hates weird.”

— Rosemary Clement-Moore

“I speak and help some folks only because I believe they may be god in flesh, testing me for politeness.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

Sometimes being polite won't take you anywhere, so you have to be mean in order to mean something in life.

— Anonymous

Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I come from people who have always been polite enough to feel that nothing has ever happened to them.

— Patricia Hampl

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

— Fergus Henderson

Presumably a movement is more polite than a revolution, and a lot slower.

— Linda Ellerbee

Are you out of your mind?" It's not polite to lie to your best friend. "It's a possibility.

— Ilona Andrews

When you're a new person and a new idea, you get invited to all these different things, and everybody wants a piece…

— Theophilus London

I think the sort of person you want at a party is someone who is self-aware, polite and has a basic knowledge…

— Derek Blasberg

I'm always polite in auditions, but I wasn't like, 'Oh, please give me the job,' for 'Robin Hood' because I didn't think…

— Jonas Armstrong

I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while…

— Nadia Giosia

If you silence yourself, if you try to be good, if you try to be polite, or toe a party line, you…

— Diana Abu-Jaber

Chandresh relishes reactions. Genuine reactions, not mere polite applause. He often values the reactions over the show itself. A show without an…

— Erin Morgenstern

Normally when people say they haven't decided, they're being polite but they're definitely not voting for you. I think it's different this…

— David Cameron

In society, there is enormous pressure for us to try and look good, to be politically correct, to say the right things,…

— Thalia

Most of the time when I have met artists who have meant a lot to me, the experience has been well above…

— Henry Rollins

Passion and courtesy are two polar opposite traits that serve to balance each other into a full-blooded whole. Without socialization, passion is…

— Vera Nazarian

“Politeness is okay, but it gets old and boring. You want to attack life with a passion, not a politeness, you want…

— C. JoyBell C

When my husband had an affair with someone else I watched his eyes glaze over when we ate dinner together and I…

— Jeanette Winterson

If a person feels terrible, it usually should not be shown or acknowledged during a greeting exchange. Instead, the unhappy person is…

— Paul Ekman

Even if you can't afford to travel the world, you can take your children to the museum, zoo or local park. And…

— Kimora Lee Simmons

[Shahrazad] had perused the books, annals and legends of preceding Kings, and the stories, examples and instances of by gone men and…

— Richard Francis Burton

The whole country wants civility. Why don't we have it? It doesn't cost anything. No federal funding, no legislation is involved. One…

— Judith Martin

I hate how being polite and friendly is now 'leading someone on' or flirting.

— Anonymous

Obviously I'm going to be polite, so nobody has anything to fear from me.

— Judith Martin

It's impossible to expect polite behavior from people who've never witnessed it.

— Kathleen Parker

With the movies, people are not going to wait around. The deadline is a deadline. In publishing it's more a polite suggestion.

— David Benioff

You don't take your cat with you to go bird shopping. Not because the cat isn't polite, but because he's a cat.

— Jim Butcher

I am a very frank person and that's how I hope to remain. I don't like to pretend to be polite. What…

— Fan Bingbing

A good apprentice cook must be as polite with the dishwasher as with the chef.

— Fernand Point

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

— Jessica Hagedorn

A man must have very eminent qualities to hold his own without being polite.

— Jean de la Bruyere

I'm polite. I guess that's the dichotomy within me. I don't like to piss people off just for the sake of pissing…

— Lucinda Williams

People in France are very intrusive when they recognize you. In New York, they are very polite, with quick words, so it's…

— Audrey Tautou

You have to hold your audience in writing to the very end-much more than in talking, when people have to be polite…

— Brenda Ueland

Please be polite. Nothing in life should erode the habit of saying thank you to people or praising them.

— Richard Branson

It is polite to apologize, but it is more polite not to do anything calling for an apology.

— Vikrant Parsai

In Sweden everybody has this perfect surface. Everyone's very polite and controls their feelings.

— Noomi Rapace

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

— Eve Ensler