Polite Quotes

407 Polite quotes by 351 unique authors

The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple… — H. L. Mencken
I think I've realized that business and being polite [don't] match. You can be fair, but me being polite was not me being fair to… — Beyonce Knowles
Polite Conversation 'Tis happy for him, that his father was before him. — Jonathan Swift
Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow. — Jonathan Swift
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. — Sinclair Lewis
How is this any different than the big boat argument of people when it came to African-Americans after the Civil War, decided, 'Put them on… — Chris Matthews
No language is rude that can boast polite writers. — Aubrey Beardsley
When asked her view of cosmetic surgery, Carmen Dell'Orefice replies, '”That's a very polite way of asking me, I'm sure, ‘Have you had a facelift?'… — Carmen Dell'Orefice
I really have to thank Facebook ... I didn't know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I have to… — Betty White
There is this immediate connection, this intimacy when you're acting because there's no room to be polite or shy. Also, as an actor I get… — Jessica Chastain
There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does, it's… — Alice Englert
Making an effort is polite, and getting ready and looking after yourself makes an event more fun. — Jude Law
It’s considered perfectly normal in this society to approach dying people who you don’t know but who are unbelievers and say, ‘Now are you gonna… — Christopher Hitchens
I listen to all these complaints about rudeness and intemperateness, and the opinion that I come to is that there is no polite way of… — Daniel Dennett
In Sweden everybody has this perfect surface. Everyones very polite and controls their feelings. — Noomi Rapace
And I think because there is an essence of me that cares about other people and what other people think then that then makes me… — Renee O'Connor
I love polite people, late September, weeping mortar, and my fantastic fands (fans/friends) — Matthew Gray Gubler
Contrary to popular opinion, Christians are not nice polite people who never get angry with one another. Those are not the virtues of God's people.… — Barbara Brown Taylor
My view is that homosexual acts, not homosexuality, but homosexual acts are wrong. They’re intrinsically wrong. And I think in a natural law based country… — Ken Cuccinelli
Do what comes into your life and do it well... Be polite without groveling. If you are ever afraid of anything, do not deny it,… — Anna Lee
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not… — Robert A. Heinlein
We are being at once wisely aware of our own frivolity if we avoid hitting and whacking and prefer 'striking' and 'smiting'; talk and chat… — J.R.R. Tolkien
It annoys me how pretty my voice is...that sounds incredibly immodest, but it annoys me how polite it can sound when perhaps what I'm singing… — Thom Yorke
Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It… — Ted Koppel
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and… — Sinclair Lewis

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