Polite Quotes

407 quotes by 351 authors

Thereâ€™s simply no polite way to tell people theyâ€™ve dedicated their lives to an illusion. — Daniel Dennett
So, to say Obama is progress is saying that heâ€™s the first black person that is qualified to be president. Thatâ€™s not black progress. Thatâ€™s… — Chris Rock
The secret of a happy marriage is simple: Just keep on being as polite to one another as you are to your friends. — Robert Quillen
No one who is at all acquainted with the Indian in his home can deny that we are a polite people. — Charles Alexander Eastman
I'm sure I'll find some use for the dress before summer."Kavill nodded, and closed his thick ledger. "Do let me know if it causes anyone… — Sarah J. Maas
Sometimes if you have very confident people, you have to tell them please, be polite, there are other players are good enough as you and… — Kurt Masur
Politics is the polite way of telling somone else theyâ€™re stupid. — Burnie Burns
I think if anything I am perhaps more inclined than most people are to be polite and considerate because I am aware that human relationships… — Alex Colville
Americans are incredibly polite as long as they get what they want. — Ben Fountain
No language is as depending on arbitrary use and custom can ever be permanently the same, but will always be in a mutable and fluctuating… — Benjamin Martin
It's still so rare for anyone to be personally acknowledged by a brand that the impact of such a simple, polite gesture on a customer's… — Gary Vaynerchuk
Seattle is a liberal city, its politics not so much blue (in the American, not the British, sense) as deep ultramarine, and its manners are… — Jonathan Raban
Argument should be polite as well as logical. — Alphonse de Lamartine
A man must have very eminent qualities to hold his own without being polite. — Jean de la Bruyere
It is something that most parents hope for in life: That their children will be moderately successful, polite, decent human beings. Anything on top of… — Jerry Kramer
The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and… — William Blake
Be an unstoppable force. Write with an imaginary machete strapped to your thigh. This is not wishy-washy, polite, drinking-tea-with-your-pinkie-sticking-out stuff. Itâ€™s who you want to… — Laini Taylor
I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized. — Duane Michals
I canâ€™t remember how many times I advised students to stop writing the sunny hours and write from where it hurts: No one wants to… — Anne Bernays
It is harder to lie in an interview. A good interview - and it can be polite - is not a one way street like… — Greta Van Susteren

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