Polite Quotes
407 quotes by 351 authors
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Politeness. Now there's a poor man's virtue if ever there was one. What's so admirable about inoffensiveness, I should like to know. After all, it's…
— Diane Setterfield
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The path of Martial Arts begins and ends with courtesy. So be genuinely polite on every occasion.
— Mas Oyama
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I am the common man. I'm polite, I love my family and I play by the rules. And sometimes I get pushed around. That's my…
— Eugene Levy
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I wonder if it changes the nature of a society for beauty to be so common. Maybe in Vietnam "She has a wonderful personality" really…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Many words and expressions which only a matter of decades ago were considered so distastefully explicit that, were they merely to be breathed in public,…
— Douglas Adams
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The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
— Baron de Montesquieu
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It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite....
— Wyndham Lewis
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In a few more days we will celebrate Xmas, the day we commemorate the birth of you-know-who. ...It seems the modern consensus of enlightened people…
— Joseph Sobran
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You think a student leaves each week because they are out of the academy. This is just a cover up to hide serious injury that…
— Unknown Author
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I don't write polite letters. I don't like to plea-bargain. I like to fight.
— Roy Cohn
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Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at Pearl Harbor's officers' mess and are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for…
— William Manchester
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When thanksgiving is filled with true meaning and is not just the formality of a polite 'thank you,' it is the recognition of dependence.
— Billy Graham
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I wonder if the polite thing to do is always the right thing to do. When I met the family from Japan, they all bowed.…
— Jack Handey
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Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect a…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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To succeed inside a political party, one must cultivate an ability to sit still and remain polite while foolish people speak nonsense
— Morton Blackwell
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So this is why I can't agree with "don't feed the trolls." When millionaire celebrity broadcasters and entire publications start trolling, ignoring them isn't really…
— Caitlin Moran
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Most magicians consider the palm an easy move to make. They are inclined to believe that they are 'getting away with it,' when they are…
— Dai Vernon
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My mom always taught me to be sweet and polite and cross my legs because it's what the guys like. Actually, they like a raunchy…
— Tiffani Thiessen
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Etiquette is the ceremonial code of polite life, more voluminous and minute in each portion of society according to its rank.
— John Ramsay McCulloch
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The important thing was that we were being polite and not saying all the things that were making us unhappy, which was the only way…
— Ruth Ozeki
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