Polite Quotes

I think the sort of person you want at a party is someone who is self-aware, polite and has a basic knowledge of table manners. And that goes for both men and women.

One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else.

People are always surprised when they spend time with my children by how normal they are. They're polite. They're well mannered. They're very down to earth, in a way.

The Germans and Austrians are very polite, the Swiss are very reserved and the Spanish usually kiss me. The Brits write me letters.

It's hard to think of them polite flows when Stephano Polato suits are your night clothes, and Jordan sweat suits are your flight clothes, and you still make it even when they say your flight closed.

My fans are pretty normal, they are always really nice and polite, and they don't interrupt my meals.

I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.

A nasty letter or a sarcastic one can make you righteously angry, but what can you do about a polite letter of rejection? Nothing, really, except cry.

Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign.

A dearth of words a woman need not fear; But 'tis a task indeed to learn to hear: In that the skill of conversation lies; That shows and makes you both polite and wise.

I had a holiday job in a kitchen, but I think well draw a polite veil over that. There was nothing joyous or creative about it. And none of this helped my studies.

Are you telling me that the polite little note I sent my college alumni magazine has, by some unbeknownst series of errors, come to be printed in The Paper of Record, instead? What a fiasco!

The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how the four cardinal virtues want us.

Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not be polite to show one's wit.

Troubled is a polite word for what I am.

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 top.

There are words to describe her, my dear, but one does not repeat them in polite company.

An excuse is a polite rejection. Men are not afraid of 'ruining the friendship.

Was [Adolf Hitler] rude to me? Never. He was always polite and well-mannered.

He was so excessively polite that Wallendar suspected he had endured many humiliations in his life.

Are you out of your mind?" It's not polite to lie to your best friend. "It's a possibility.

When a book of mine comes out, I instantly go hunting the net, not for praise, but for criticism, because that's how you learn, from people who don't have to be polite to you.

Yanking his inner manwhore back to the land of polite conversating, he forced his hands to stop

He was never more sinister than when he was most polite.

But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the 19th century, but frowned upon in polite society.]

I like the laid-back, polite, respectful courteous personality cowboys have. Guys almost lay down their life for you if they're your friends. You exist on a handshake rather than a signed contract.

Killing people was far easier than making polite chitchat.

Me and polite have never been on close terms.

When one is polite in German, one lies.

Make me, dear Lord, polite and kind, To everyone, I pray. And may I ask you how you find Yourself, dear Lord, today?

It was not polite for a Temujai general to allow his emotions to show.

I'll have pot in my home for guests - I'm polite! - but I don't sit around and smoke by myself, ever. Not like I did when I was young.

It's a great group of people here at Texas A&M, and everybody you run into is incredibly polite.

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 studiously polite.

Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow.

I can be very polite, but I've found that doesn't always get a result. You have got to bang and thump tables.

When politeness is used to show up other people, it is reclassified as rudeness. Thus it is technically impossible to be too polite.

Telling a lie is called wrong. Telling the truth is called right. Except when telling the truth is called bad manners and telling a lie is called polite.

I will die for the art & what I believe in. The art ain't always gon' be polite.

As a person, I'm polite - I want to please.

...Everyone had to eat, but eating people wasn't polite.

Presumably a movement is more polite than a revolution, and a lot slower.

I did think reviewers were supposed to be polite about story collections - collections are rather delicate creatures in the literary environment - but not everybody got this memo, I guess.

I'm polite. I guess that's the dichotomy within me. I don't like to piss people off just for the sake of pissing them off. I pick my battles.

Track is full of the absolute nicest and most polite athletes in all of sports, and where does it get us?

My only hope was to be polite.

Under my leadership the Liberal Democrats would not be making polite interjections from the sidelines, we would be hammering on the doors of power.

murder is not polite.

Things it is not polite to discuss at the dinner table: politics, religion, and the walking dead.

To succeed inside a political party, one must cultivate an ability to sit still and remain polite while foolish people speak nonsense