Lord Sedgecroft--" "Ssh. It isn't polite to interrupt me…

It is not very polite to interrupt a person, of course, but sometimes if the person is very unpleasant you can hardly stop yourself.

— Anonymous

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…

— Amor Towles

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 going to…

— Anonymous

There are two sides to me. One is the writer. That's a savage person who looks at everything as a story and, you know,…

— Walter Kirn

Near the end of his life, my father proved to be, at his core, a very polite, chivalrous man. He walked the halls of…

— Jennifer L. Knox

I only asked my friends to be friendly and polite, I found them indifferent and censorious; The one I left to silence, the other…

— Stevie Smith

“In general, poor is polite and rich is rude.”

— Amit Kalantri

The practice of all ages and all countries (whether Christian or heathen, polite or barbarous) hath been ... to do honour to those who…

— Francis Atterbury

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 time. People…

— David Cameron

It is something that most parents hope for in life: That their children will be moderately successful, polite, decent human beings. Anything on top…

— Jerry Kramer

Women are sort of like motorcycle gangs with me. They get really shy and polite. I don't know why.

— Jack Nicholson

Most magicians consider the palm an easy move to make. They are inclined to believe that they are 'getting away with it,' when they…

— Dai Vernon

To be polite to everybody except the people they love most is a nervous affectation that afflicts many families ... when they come home,…

— Margaret Fishback

Filmmaking, like sex, isn't a polite enterprise. It involves a lot of mess and the bottom line is, if somebody ain't screaming, you're not…

— James Woods

There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does,…

— Alice Englert