When politeness is used to show up other people, it is reclassified as rudeness. Thus it is technically impossible to be too… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite. — Jean Kerr Copy Share Image
I'm brash and abrasive but that's because I've noticed when people are nice and polite they never get anywhere. — Mahathir Mohamad Copy Share Image
It is not very polite to interrupt a person, of course, but sometimes if the person is very unpleasant you can hardly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm a polite person. I'll tell you excuse me and shut the f*ck up in the same sentence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Not to brag but I'm such a polite bitch, I'll tell you excuse me and shut the fuck up in the same… — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
“To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid - one must also be polite.” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
In polite society one laughs at all the jokes, including the ones one has heard before. — Frank Dane 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
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
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
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 do get stopped in the street, and people are always, without exception, really polite. I think it's because they think I… — Robert Rinder Copy Share Image
I'm not sure when exactly I knew I was funny, but I always knew I was different. I never had an 'edit'… — Judy Gold Copy Share Image
Lyall had spent centuries nibbling about the great layered cake that was polite society while Lord Akeldama acted the part of the… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
“Tell me about yourself, Miss Russell." I started to give him the obligatory response, first the demurral and then the reluctant flat… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
People take it for granted that the physical world is both ordered and intelligible. The underlying order in nature - the laws… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
She's always polite and kind, but her words lack the kind of curiosity and excitement you'd normally expect. Her true feelings- assuming… — Haruki Murakami 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
Most people, when they imagine New England, think about old colonial homes, white houses with black shutters, whales, and sexually morbid WASPs… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
...Baltimore. It's imperfect. Boy, is it imperfect. And there are parts of its past that make you wince. It's not all marble… — Laura Lippman 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
“Baltimore is warm but pleasant... I belong here, where everything is civilized and gay and rotted and polite.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald 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
The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect. — Carl Sandburg 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
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
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
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
“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
“Manners count. Be polite and seek out the common ground, not just the high ground.” — Allan Dare Pearce Copy Share Image
I wasn't entirely sure, but a polite John Pritkin might be a sign of the apocalypse. — Karen Chance 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
