Polite Society Quotes

17 quotes by 13 authors

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
The dinner table is the center for the teaching and practicing not just of table manners but of conversation, consideration, tolerance, family feeling, and just… — Judith Martin
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
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
Jazz was formerly a crude term for indulging in an action which in polite society is referred to, if at all, only with such vague… — Charlton Laird
I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society. — Jessica Hagedorn
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. — Robert A. Heinlein
If you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and… — Stephen King
An armed society is a polite society. — Robert A. Heinlein
There are things that are not spoken about in polite society. Very quickly in most conversations you'll reach a moment where someone goes, 'Oh, that's… — Alain de Botton
The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of… — W. E. B. Du Bois
If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered. — Stephen King
In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies. — Stephen King
Lyall had spent centuries nibbling about the great layered cake that was polite society while Lord Akeldama acted the part of the frosting on its… — Gail Carriger
Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors. — Karin Slaughter
And opposite the bench, the dock, divided by a partition, with the women to the left and the men to the right, as it is… — Henry Lawson
In polite society one laughs at all the jokes, including the ones one has heard before. — Frank Dane

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