“Manners count. Be polite and seek out the common ground, not just the high ground.” — Allan Dare Pearce Copy Share Image
Who is the brave man--he who feels no fear? If so, then bravery is but a polite term for a mind devoid… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“When people are perfectly polite, it usually means they don't really care. A little awkwardness is more sincere.” — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
My parents always taught me not to be a good tennis player or the best in what I'm doing, but to be… — Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Copy Share Image
Especially these days where everything is so polite and so proper, I think that rites of passage are good. — Emile Hirsch Copy Share Image
When telemarketers call me now, I won't get the blow-horn. I'm more polite than the average person. — Adam DeVine Copy Share Image
It's a great group of people here at Texas A&M, and everybody you run into is incredibly polite. — Johnny Manziel Copy Share Image
Polite conservationists leave no mark save the scars upon the Earth that could have been prevented had they stood their ground. — David R. Brower Copy Share Image
I can be very polite, and I think that people can confuse that for all sorts of things... But I'll take that… — Amy Adams Copy Share Image
Political civility is not about being polite to each other. It's about reclaiming the power of 'We the People' to come together,… — Parker Palmer Copy Share Image
And I think because there is an essence of me that cares about other people and what other people think then that… — Renee O'Connor Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Be polite, but dont try to be friends with everyone around you. Instead, spend time nurturing your relationships with the people who… — Nate Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Suicide is a whispered word, inappropriate for polite company. Family and friends often pretend they do not hear the word's dread sound… — Earl A Grollman Copy Share Image
We are being at once wisely aware of our own frivolity if we avoid hitting and whacking and prefer 'striking' and 'smiting';… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“In order to be polite, it is necessary to have something to give. Politeness is the art of doing to others the… — Astolphe de Custine Copy Share Image
Los Angeles made me less interested in making my images move. Everything is evolving and regressing. It can be hard to pinpoint… — Torbjørn Rødland Copy Share Image
Conservatives are telling elected leaders that expansion of Medicaid comes at a moral - or more overtly, a political - price. At… — Ronnie Musgrove Copy Share Image
I listen to all these complaints about rudeness and intemperateness, and the opinion that I come to is that there is no… — 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
What have you done to my cat?" Magnus demanded... "You drank his blood, didn't you? You said you weren't hungry!" Simon was… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Being English, we're polite and reserved, we don't express our opinions; we're very private people. — Steven Wilson Copy Share Image
“It is unpredictable for you to know which of the strangers you are about to meet that becomes your friend. Be polite… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I want someone honest, someone who's very sweet to my family and friends, and polite to the other people around me. — Selena Gomez Copy Share Image
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I do not see why I should be polite to tyrants, who slobber of humanitarianism and think only of their own petty… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
'Almost' can be a polite way of saying something definitely. It withholds the obvious and dangles it just long enough. — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
An excuse is a polite rejection. Men are not afraid of 'ruining the friendship. — Greg Behrendt Copy Share Image
The trouble is, if you go too far towards being polite, the label that applies is "doormat". — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“I think it's 'only polite' that my wife should let me know when she's entertaining a male visitor, furthermore one that has… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“If someone offers to take your burden, you need to know he is serious, not just being polite and kind. Polite and… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
When we are polite to children, we show in the most simple and direct way possible that we value them as people… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
“You may have something wise to say, but HOW YOU SAY IT may make it unwise! RECREATE it, else you'll REGRET it!” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“I'm very polite by nature, even the voices in my head let each other finish their sentences.” — Graham Parke Copy Share Image
