Polite Quotes
407 quotes by 359 authors
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Polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing and solving our real problems.
— Martha Beck
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I'm big on my kids being conventionally polite, and it works really well for them.
— Mayim Bialik
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Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
— Otto von Bismarck
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My fans are pretty normal, they are always really nice and polite, and they don't interrupt my meals.
— Drew Carey
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When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
— Winston Churchill
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The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don't want to be.
— Eric Clapton
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Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Anyone who thinks we can continue to have world wars but make them nice polite affairs by outlawing this weapon or that should meditate upon…
— Joel Henry Hildebrand
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The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an…
— Orison Swett Marden
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Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.
— James Mattis
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Citizens everywhere, and especially soldiers, should remember that entrenched bureaucracy, whatever the level, can be overcome. You've got to stick to it, be polite but…
— William G. Bainbridge
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It's hard to think of them polite flows when Stephano Polato suits are your night clothes, and Jordan sweat suits are your flight clothes, and…
— Drake
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When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine he is that polite all the time.
— E. W. Howe
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Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not be polite to…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite.
— Alexander Pope
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What a polite game tennis is. The chief word in it seems to be "sorry" and admiration of each other's play crosses the net as…
— James M. Barrie
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The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.
— Russell Lynes
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A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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