Polite Quotes
We often laughed at others in our house, and I picked up the craft of being polite while people were present and laughing later if there was anything to laugh about.
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 to talk about startling or upsetting things with people.
In Sweden everybody has this perfect surface. Everyones very polite and controls their feelings.
How's it going down there?" "It's weird. They're too polite, they talk funny, and stuff has too much shine on it. But the coffee's worse than Central's, so that's something.
I wonder if it changes the nature of a society for beauty to be so common. Maybe in Vietnam "She has a wonderful personality" really means something. But I couldnt figure out a polite way to ask.
I come from people who have always been polite enough to feel that nothing has ever happened to them.
Girls are small and polite and smiley. They wear dresses and their hair is long and it’s pulled into shapes behind their heads or on either side.
Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect a character from posterity.
Shane settled his flamethrower more comfortably on his shoulders. “Ladies? After you.” “Rude,” Claire said. “I was being polite!” “Not when you have a flamethrower.
God,” I moaned. “Do they use that stuff as rocket fuel?” “No one made you keep drinking it.” “Hey, don’t get preachy. Besides, I had to be polite.” “Sure,” she said.
I stepped forward. Call me old-fashioned, but I wanted to keep his focus on me and not Annabeth. I think it’s polite for a guy to protect his girlfriend from instant incineration.
I really don't understand minimalism. It is so polite and boring. If you don't want anyone to notice you, you should stay home and grow your own vegetables.
How long is it polite to continue to be interested in what someone says after they reveal they've got a boyfriend?
The important thing was that we were being polite and not saying all the things that were making us unhappy, which was the only way we knew how to love each other.
I can't tell you. I would say that if I did, I would have to kill you, but that wouldn't be polite.
Ryssa? How do you know her name was Ryssa? (Tory) Uh…I don’t. I just gave her a name. It seemed more polite than calling her ‘hey, you, ancient chick.’ (Acheron)
If a man isn't being nice when you're out, all you have to do is remain polite and then go home early.
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 reproach: God send me over all such friends victorious.
Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children.
Ninety percent of the people in any group are nice, raised to be polite, and have more in common than not.
But I don't want to be fine, not if it means she's going to let go of my hand; not if it means we're going to go back to being polite strangers.
When youre a new person and a new idea, you get invited to all these different things, and everybody wants a piece of you. And you want to be polite and say yes to everything, but it gets dangerous.
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 is deeply acidic.
I have never been able to understand why pigeon-shooting at Hurlingham should be refined and polite, while a rat-killing match in Whitechapel is low.
I would say L.A. is more polite than London - it's a very careful place. People talk a lot in code.
Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change.
I pride myself on being fairly polite on a set so it's kind of a guilty pleasure to poke others on the set.
If a woman cannot make her mistakes charming, she is only a female.
You may have good skills and better knowledge, but it is your attitude that will bring people closer to you.
Who you are when you have no power to say anything, and who you become when you have power to say everything will determine whether you are a leader or not.
Seek a man that doesn't ask you to prove your love. Seek a man that will prove God's love.
Your skull encloses your brains. But never forget that anytime you open your mouth to talk, you have opened your mind for the entire world to see what is hidden in there!
Manners without sincerity, is called polite society
Talk to strangers politely. You don’t how many of them will become your close companions.
Display politeness and frankness always both in action and conversation. Don’t keep engaging in useless arguments. It scares your dreams away. Talk sensibly.
He wasn't good with this sort of thing - with the back-and-forth dance between man and woman. He wasn't even sure if they were dancing, or if she was merely being polite.
Talk to strangers politely... Every friend you have now was once a stranger, although not every stranger becomes a friend.
It is unpredictable for you to know which of the strangers you are about to meet that becomes your friend. Be polite to every stranger!
Be polite in your speeches. Good information rudely communicated will make no positive difference.
Never wear pride as the jersey of your dreams. You will miss the goal and lose your dreams if you put on pride!