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Polite Quotes by Sinclair Lewis
- Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
- 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…
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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… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness. — Otto von Bismarck
- Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity. — Russell Lynes
- Be polite to all, friendly to none. Be professional. Be ready to kill everyone and everything. — Janet Morris
- The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so… — H. L. Mencken
- Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. — Sinclair Lewis
- And I think because there is an essence of me that cares about other people and what other people think then that… — Renee O'Connor