“To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid - one must also be polite.” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is not very polite to interrupt a person, of course, but sometimes if the person is very unpleasant you can hardly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm a polite person. I'll tell you excuse me and shut the f*ck up in the same sentence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite. — Jean Kerr Copy Share Image
When politeness is used to show up other people, it is reclassified as rudeness. Thus it is technically impossible to be too… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Track is full of the absolute nicest and most polite athletes in all of sports, and where does it get us? — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The people are different in L.A. There was a time when I lived in New York and that was a bit of… — Scott Clifton Copy Share Image
So I had a choice between going to a jail or going to a bughouse like a nice young middle-class student. So… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
In society, there is enormous pressure for us to try and look good, to be politically correct, to say the right things,… — Thalia Copy Share Image
This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
The most exquisite words and finest strokes of an author are those which very often appear the most doubtful and exceptionable to… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards. On… — Claire Wolfe Copy Share Image
Giving free advice is a sad waste of effort. In the first place, no man will act upon it unless he is… — William H. McMaster Copy Share Image
What have you done to my cat?" Magnus demanded... "You drank his blood, didn't you? You said you weren't hungry!" Simon was… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway... You… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I listen to all these complaints about rudeness and intemperateness, and the opinion that I come to is that there is no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Conservatives are telling elected leaders that expansion of Medicaid comes at a moral - or more overtly, a political - price. At… — Ronnie Musgrove Copy Share Image
Recently a young mother asked for advice. What, she wanted to know, was she to do with a 7-year-old who was obstreperous,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Someone asked me if I would like to write a man on death row, be a pen pal, and I was like,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“It's not polite to ask if a man has a big salami in his pants, okay?” — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
