Common courtesy plays a big role in happy marriages. People who are permanently married are polite to one another. They don't want… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Most magicians consider the palm an easy move to make. They are inclined to believe that they are 'getting away with it,'… — Dai Vernon Copy Share Image
She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The country has always been governed by a coalition but today it is governed by a so-called Grand Coalition which is a… — George Mikes Copy Share Image
Smoking is very bad for you and should only be done because it looks so good. People who don't smoke have a… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
An environment-based education movement--at all levels of education--will help students realize that school isn't supposed to be a polite form of incarceration,… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
The polite of every country seem to have but one character. A gentleman of Sweden differs but little, except in trifles, from… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
There's no chivalry in culture any more. Sometimes you meet someone who everyone says is polite and you're like, 'Wow,' but then… — will.i.am Copy Share Image
When I started blogging in 2004, I responded to every comment no matter how nasty the reader was. I was generally polite,… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
“Nose to nose with her, he gave her his best bad dog snarl. "You've forgotten who and what you're dealing with here,… — Cindy Gerard Copy Share Image
I am simply in favor of intellectual hospitality-that is all. You come to me with a new idea. I invite you into… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
There was very polite, gentlemanly, and - and - and lady-like push-back on issues on both sides. Chuck Schumer continues to push… — Mick Mulvaney Copy Share Image
“Take the initiative with deliberate steps to be a polite person: 1. Cover your mouth when you cough or sneeze. 2. Reciprocate… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone… — Alice Englert 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
Matt's brother and the blond cook spent a good portion of last season tangling the sheets. Historically, said cook tangled many other… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
Always be polite to a dragon. It's harder than it sounds. Dragon etiquette is incredibly complicated, and if you make a mistake,… — Patricia C. Wrede Copy Share Image
It's a dirty little secret that most New Yorkers are pleasant, thoughtful, patient, and polite. The Chamber of Commerce must work overtime… — Judith Kelman Copy Share Image
But in reality the point of free speech is for the stuff that’s over the line, and strikingly unbalanced. If free speech… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
My mother is old-fashioned; she raised us like girls from a 19th-century book. My sisters and I are known for being the… — Lou Doillon Copy Share Image
I think if anything I am perhaps more inclined than most people are to be polite and considerate because I am aware… — Alex Colville Copy Share Image
The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I did think reviewers were supposed to be polite about story collections - collections are rather delicate creatures in the literary environment… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Do unto others as you would have done unto you. Manners aren't anything but a polite person being nice, no matter what… — Sarah-Kate Lynch Copy Share Image
Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - to be… — Emma Thompson 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 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
There is this immediate connection, this intimacy when you're acting because there's no room to be polite or shy. Also, as an… — Jessica Chastain Copy Share Image
Citizens everywhere, and especially soldiers, should remember that entrenched bureaucracy, whatever the level, can be overcome. You've got to stick to it,… — William G. Bainbridge Copy Share Image
Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those...who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient and… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
As youngsters, my mother taught her children that while we might not be the smartest people around, we could be courteous, polite… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
In the tropics the white feels weakened, or downright weak, whence comes the heightened tendency to outbursts of aggression. People who are… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
Shane settled his flamethrower more comfortably on his shoulders. “Ladies? After you.” “Rude,” Claire said. “I was being polite!” “Not when you… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a… — William Blake Copy Share Image
The important thing was that we were being polite and not saying all the things that were making us unhappy, which was… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
The reaction I got from Sônia [Braga] in less than 48 hours after I sent her the script [Aquarius] was so genuine… — Sonia Braga Copy Share Image
My immune system has always been overly welcoming of germs. It's far too polite, the biological equivalent of a southern hostess inviting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If an armed nation were a polite nation, America would be paradise. We have more than 200 million guns in private owernship… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
When somebody meets me in the street, they say, 'Hello, how you doing?' And I say the same back. It's just two… — Ray Winstone Copy Share Image