Busy Quote by Baron de Montesquieu

The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.

— Baron de Montesquieu

There is a certain amount of politeness here in America, which is probably more than just politeness.

— Yiyun Li

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.

— Malcolm Bradbury

Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, surely.

— Anne Rice

What's so useful about the British culture of politeness is the level of passive aggression is really fun to write.

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

There is a time for politeness and there is a time when you are obliged to be rude,

— Daniel Dennett

Americans are incredibly polite as long as they get what they want.

— Ben Fountain

The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.

— Oscar Wilde

In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved.

— Russell Brand

Politeness costs little and yields much.

— Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles

“The second thing that I struck me was that people are not, contrary to popular belief, rude. Not in the slightest. In fact, most…

— Sarah Reiley (Passed Ports

A lot of our lives are about being polite.

— Rachelle Lefevre