Polite Quotes · Page 12

“I learned a lot about how to be frigidly polite and still leave somebody feeling like they’d been spanked.”

— Patricia C. Wrede

All fame is is having people you don't know coming up to you and saying, 'Hello.' I'm always polite and people are…

— Karl Pilkington

“Seek a man that doesn't ask you to prove your love. Seek a man that will prove God's love.”

— Shannon L. Alder

The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to…

— Samuel L. Jackson

Being polite is so rare these days that its often confused with flirting..

— Ritu Ghatourey

The audience was swell. They were so polite they covered their mouths when they yawned.

— Bob Hope

A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.

— Oliver Goldsmith

I don't want to be polite. I don't think campaigning is polite. That's a disingenuous effort.

— Carl Paladino

“The will to be polite, to maintain civility and normalcy, is fearfully strong. I wonder sometimes how much evil is permitted to…

— Alix E. Harrow

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

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

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

I'm always polite in auditions, but I wasn't like, 'Oh, please give me the job,' for 'Robin Hood' because I didn't think…

— Jonas Armstrong

I am an incorrigible devotee to solitude, and am never so cheerful, I believe, or so unruffled by small difficulties as when…

— Susan Hale

I get that we live in a culture where political correctness is expected, especially in polite company, but we also cannot divorce…

— Phaedra Parks

You can't compare a Super Bowl crowd, which tends to be more polite and a little more neutral to that. The Super…

— Lamar Hunt

Liberals create a world that's not real. They create a world where it's impossible to be obedient. It's impossible to go through…

— Rush Limbaugh

I tell you these stories because these things happen to everyone. It's not about being starched or polished or cute or polite.…

— Maira Kalman

I don't worry too much about what people think about my image, but I think I am pretty polite. My colleagues say…

— Russ Feingold

I know, I say, after he says, This is hard, for the third time. This is what happens when you have a…

— Kathryn Erskine

“When people related by blood were so careful with each other, when they were so very polite, there was soon nothing left…

— Alice Hoffman

Anyone who thinks we can continue to have world wars but make them nice polite affairs by outlawing this weapon or that…

— Joel Henry Hildebrand

The American people are not naifs who yearn for isolationism, but they are starting to ask some hard questions about the way…

— Victor Davis Hanson

The hundred-point man is one who is true to every trust; who keeps his word; who is loyal to the firm that…

— Elbert Hubbard

.., by universal custom, your enemy is never more polite than when he is planning or has planned your destruction.

— James Clavell

Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children.

— Susan George

Women are sort of like motorcycle gangs with me. They get really shy and polite. I don't know why.

— Jack Nicholson

Sometimes we are too polite with our suffering and allow it to dominate our life.

— Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

“You can't teach a flower to be polite, because it's already polite; you need to teach politeness to a rude cactus!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Without religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company, I mean Hell.

— Anonymous

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

— Daniel Dennett

Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he'll never be able to merge…

— Nikhil Saluja

I believe you should always be polite when you ask a question. I totally believe that.

— Kaitlan Collins

No one who is at all acquainted with the Indian in his home can deny that we are a polite people.

— Anonymous

“Share what you like and don’t pretend to like things you don’t. There are many ways to be honest but polite.”

— Jay Woodman

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

— Otto von Bismarck

Be polite even to those who are rude to you, not because they are, but because of you are.

— John Reyes

“I'll see you off," Daru said. "No," said Balducci. "There's no use being polite. You insulted me.”

— Albert Camus

A teenage girl who steals her mother's menstrual pads is a polite family member.

— Mohammad MUSTAFA

When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine that he is polite all the time.

— Anonymous