Polite Quotes · Page 5

I love polite people, late September, weeping mortar, and my fantastic fands (fans/friends)

— Matthew Gray Gubler

I think the first prerequisite to civilization is an ability to make polite conversation.

— W. H. Auden

I hope somewhere along the way, I've inspired someone to do something. ... And I hope they say that I was nice…

— Daria Werbowy

“Being polite is not only the right way to respond to people but also the easiest.”

— Dean Koontz

I always say that you can be polite and nice and still know what you want and still can see your path.

— Grace VanderWaal

When five up express, as is polite, regret at laying a stymie, but rejoice in your heart.

— Charles Walter Simpson

I guess it's keep your head up, right? Killin' 'em with kindness 'cause they hate it when you're polite.

— Raghib Clitso

“He was polite, respectful, not daring even to hold Mi-ran’s hand until they’d been dating for three years.”

— Barbara Demick

It's still so rare for anyone to be personally acknowledged by a brand that the impact of such a simple, polite gesture…

— Gary Vaynerchuk

To act in a way both sexist and racist, to maintain one's class privilege, it is only necessary to act in the…

— Joanna Russ

Being a nice person is about courtesy: you're friendly, polite, agreeable, and accommodating. When people believe they have to be nice in…

— Adam Grant

If the notion on this is we're going to elect somebody to the United States Senate so they can be the 100th…

— Elizabeth Warren

Girls are small and polite and smiley. They wear dresses and their hair is long and it’s pulled into shapes behind their…

— Patrick Ness

Under my leadership the Liberal Democrats would not be making polite interjections from the sidelines, we would be hammering on the doors…

— Menzies Campbell

I was stark raving mad, and my family was too polite to mention it. That's what living with the Yamanis does to…

— Tamora Pierce

He endeared himself to me forever the first night we met, when I was getting frustrated with my inability to find the…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

— Jennifer L. Knox

No general description of the mode of advance of human knowledge can be just which leaves out of account the social aspect…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

For me, I felt bad for people asking the questions, cause you know their boss sent them out saying, 'Get me something…

— Jonathan Rhys Meyers

In order for us [people] to progress, we need brilliance and brilliance isn't fair and it's not polite and we can't grow…

— Augusten Burroughs

“Anyone can be polite to a stranger. Anyone can remain charming when spending time with an acquaintance, but what about those with…

— Donna Lynn Hope

The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper…

— Orison Swett Marden

Beside him a tiny elderly woman was leaning on a cane, studying him with curiosity. Since good manners seemed to require that…

— Judith McNaught

Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that…

— Adam McKay

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

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

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

— Eve Ensler

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

— Jessica Hagedorn

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

— Kathleen Parker

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

— Linda Ellerbee

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

— Anonymous

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

— Ilona Andrews

“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

For some reason people are very polite to me, but some ask me for autographs and photos.

— Hafthor Bjornsson

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Anonymous

Glasgow is less polite than Edinburgh but that's a good thing - they keep it very real.

— Nik Kershaw

Being polite to a person is not a sign of respect for them. It is merely a sign of a good upbringing…

— Brandon Sanderson

In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Things it is not polite to discuss at the dinner table: politics, religion, and the walking dead.

— Mira Grant