Polite Quotes

407 quotes by 351 authors

People in France are very intrusive when they recognize you. In New York, they are very polite, with quick words, so it's great. — Audrey Tautou
Being polite and grateful will make people more inclined to help you. And if people are willing to help you, you may accidentally get something… — Jason Sudeikis
I enjoyed my upbringing, my siblings did, we're polite, we're respectful, but at the end of the day we're young, we like to have fun.… — Tinie Tempah
Balanced is probably what I am, although that's just a polite way to say that you don't do anything very well. — Steve Yzerman
It's a great group of people here at Texas A&M, and everybody you run into is incredibly polite. — Johnny Manziel
If a Democrat took Republicans on rudely, they wouldn't be elevated in the Democratic Party. There's a different standard. We're supposed to be polite to… — Dannel Malloy
The country has always been governed by a coalition but today it is governed by a so-called Grand Coalition which is a more polite word… — George Mikes
The help (in Japan) is very polite. They bow so much, you don't know which end to talk to. — Bob Hope
I only asked my friends to be friendly and polite, I found them indifferent and censorious; The one I left to silence, the other to… — Stevie Smith
My only hope was to be polite. — Mark Vonnegut
The great thing about novels is that you can be as unshy as you want to be. I'm very polite in person. I don't want… — Nicholson Baker
I can be very polite, but I've found that doesn't always get a result. You have got to bang and thump tables. — Joy Baluch
I'm okay. Nobody's bothering me. Everyone's very kind, and very polite. I don't feel like my whole life changed. — Berenice Bejo
I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people. — Daniel Clowes
I've had fans come and knock on my door. I'm usually polite, but I'm usually very direct and say, 'It's not cool that you come… — Gary Allan
A car to pick me up every day, a chair with my name on it, everybody being very polite... what can you do except sit… — Charles Dance
Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose… — Benny Goodman
With the movies, people are not going to wait around. The deadline is a deadline. In publishing it's more a polite suggestion. — David Benioff
I felt that even when they were polite they hardly saw me, that they would have begged the pardon of Jack the Bear, never glancing… — Ralph Ellison
I want someone honest, someone who's very sweet to my family and friends, and polite to the other people around me. — Selena Gomez

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