I don't want to be polite. I don't think campaigning is polite. That's a disingenuous effort. — Carl Paladino Copy Share Image
People were always saying to Margaret, 'Well, Julia sings and Betsy writes. Now what is little Margaret going to do?' Margaret would… — Maud Hart Lovelace Copy Share Image
I think the first prerequisite to civilization is an ability to make polite conversation. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
People identify with the swashbuckling individuals, not polite little men who field their position well. Sir Galahad had a big following -… — Bill Veeck Copy Share Image
Greatness starts with the replacement of hatred with polite disdain. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb 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
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
The old adage that polite conversation should not include talk of politics or religion is understandable because both subjects are so heavily… — John C. Danforth Copy Share Image
Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Politics' the polite word for antediluvian prejudices, the rags put on by enmity and tribal resentment. — Joseph O'Connor Copy Share Image
You think a student leaves each week because they are out of the academy. This is just a cover up to hide… — David Sneddon Copy Share Image
Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods… — John Yoo Copy Share Image
I hate it when people are impolite to waiters or to the valet or the guy in the supermarket. There's no need… — Ashley Madekwe Copy Share Image
What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the… — Stephen King 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
How is this any different than the big boat argument of people when it came to African-Americans after the Civil War, decided,… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
There are things that are not spoken about in polite society. Very quickly in most conversations you'll reach a moment where someone… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
... Where did you go?” “Down below.” “Ugh,” she said. “I’ve heard they’re little better than animals.” Funny. I thought the same… — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
The help (in Japan) is very polite. They bow so much, you don't know which end to talk to. — Bob Hope 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'll have pot in my home for guests - I'm polite! - but I don't sit around and smoke by myself, ever.… — John Waters Copy Share Image
We're in a chronic debt-deflation. There's no way we can recover unless you write down the debts. And that's what the IMF… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
