Polite Quotes

The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.

In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.

I've had fans come and knock on my door. I'm usually polite, but I'm usually very direct and say, 'It's not cool that you come here uninvited.'

People in France are very intrusive when they recognize you. In New York, they are very polite, with quick words, so it's great.

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

Balanced is probably what I am, although that's just a polite way to say that you don't do anything very well.

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

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.

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

I'm okay. Nobody's bothering me. Everyone's very kind, and very polite. I don't feel like my whole life changed.

No language is rude that can boast polite writers.

A man needs to be polite, not just to me but to everyone. I watch that. How does he treat the waiter? How does he treat the coat-check girl? How does he treat the driver?

You can't compare a Super Bowl crowd, which tends to be more polite and a little more neutral to that. The Super Bowl only has 7,000 to 8,000 fans for each team.

Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children.

A car to pick me up every day, a chair with my name on it, everybody being very polite... what can you do except sit back and watch it all, try to take it all in?

I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people.

Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.

Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.

I don't write polite letters. I don't like to plea-bargain. I like to fight.

There is this immediate connection, this intimacy when you're acting because there's no room to be polite or shy. Also, as an actor I get to connect with women I've never met before.

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 on the stairs or the block in polite society.

It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.

Comedy isn't polite and it isn't correct and it isn't accurate, even. It's just a mess. So that's the way that I approach it.

Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods that go beyond polite conversation.

Swedes are such a civilised, perfect society - at least on the surface. There's a great safety net, a huge middle class, free education, free health care. People are very polite, they wait their turn. They're not too loud, they're not too quiet, but sometimes it's a little too perfect.

Especially these days where everything is so polite and so proper, I think that rites of passage are good.

In Japan, you have no idea what they are saying, and they can't help you either. Nothing makes any sense. They're very polite, but you feel like a joke is being played on you the entire time you're there.

The nerves are a problem on trumpet, because when you mess up everyone can hear it. Just remember most people are too polite to say anything about it. That should calm your nerves.