...news' is often a polite way of saying 'editor's whim.

Balanced is probably what I am, although that's just a polite way to say that you don't do anything very well.

— Steve Yzerman

Politics is the polite way of telling somone else they’re stupid.

— Burnie Burns

There is no polite way to suggest to someone that they have devoted their life to a folly.

— Daniel Dennett

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

— Daniel Dennett

'Almost' can be a polite way of saying something definitely. It withholds the obvious and dangles it just long enough.

— Andre Aciman

A question is a polite way of demanding something.

— Edward de Bono

You look tired it is just the polite way of saying you look like shit...

— Spikenard Kjd

'You look tired.' is just a polite way for someone to tell you that you look like sh*t.

— Anonymous

“a sign in a West Twenty-Ninth Street restaurant that read, ‘Don’t hesitate to ask for credit, as we have the most polite way of…

— R. Scott Williams

“Journalism is a bunch of dorks pretending to be alpha males.”

— Tom Rachman

My intent was to gain experience for fiction I eventually hoped to write. But there's no question I was drawn in by the hope…

— Tom Rachman

“He cannot deny a certain relief in being able to sift through academic tomes, fulfilling his journalistic duty without having to barge past security…

— Tom Rachman

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