“A woman who knew her own mind and scorned the conventions of polite society. We were going to get along just fine.” — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Mornings and I had a falling out many years ago. We avoid one another as much as polite society dictates we may.” — Megan Derr Copy Share Image
Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“polite society is just a paper thin veil that masks the true animal nature of man”. ” — Dirk Patton Copy Share Image
If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society. — Jessica Hagedorn Copy Share Image
My fragile connection with the world of polite society has, without a doubt, been severed. — John McAfee Copy Share Image
If you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
And opposite the bench, the dock, divided by a partition, with the women to the left and the men to the right,… — Henry Lawson Copy Share Image
“Instincts were to be trusted above the teachings of an allegedly polite society. If she felt something was wrong, then something was… — Tami Hoag Copy Share Image
“If you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Hence one meets in polite society few novelists, or poets, few of all those sublime creatures who speak of the things that… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
We're so concerned about being polite in society, and rightfully so, that it carries over onto a football team. But on a… — Scott Frost Copy Share Image
I think that when you are accused of being in bad taste it can be quite positive. You're challenging the notions of… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
“Gundar's smile broadened at the memory of that evening as he recalled how his rough-and-tumble sailors had stayed on their best manners,… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
“Reading at meal is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many words and expressions which only a matter of decades ago were considered so distastefully explicit that, were they merely to be… — Douglas Adams 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
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
“Stephen King: If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered” — Afiena Kamminga Copy Share Image
“In England, art was much less likely to be mentioned in polite society than sexual perversions or methods of torture.” — Edward St. Aubyn Copy Share Image
“Gurov, discovers that the most important features of life that you want to talk about cannot be spoken of in polite society.” — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image