Polite Quotes - Page 4

The English are busy; they don't have time to be polite.

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, but behave as if you feared nothing.

If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered.

There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding.

I'm big on my kids being conventionally polite, and it works really well for them.

Alas! it is true: "Be polite to bores and so shall you have bores always round about you."

The only option is politeness-remember always that you are dealing with other primates.

There is nothing costs less than civility.

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

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

Baltimore is warm but pleasant... I belong here, where everything is civilized and gay and rotted and polite.

We must stop being polite and behaved and find new inventive tactics to shift the paradigm. We are the majority.

The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don't want to be.

A question is a polite way of demanding something.

They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness.

What are sisters for if not to point out the things the rest of the world is too polite to mention.

The audience was swell. They were so polite they covered their mouths when they yawned.

Americans are incredibly polite as long as they get what they want.

There is a certain amount of politeness here in America, which is probably more than just politeness.

Don’t you bully me with your politeness!

Politeness costs nothing. Nothing, that is, to him that shows it; but if often costs the world very dear.

You don't feel honest on a date, I guess. You don't really get to learn about anyone. You're kind of being polite and you can ask the questions, it's just not a great time for me.

I would say L.A. is more polite than London - it's a very careful place. People talk a lot in code.

Politeness has been defined to be artificial good-nature; but we may affirm, with much greater propriety, that good-nature is natural politeness.

I can't tell you. I would say that if I did, I would have to kill you, but that wouldn't be polite.