Polite Quotes

Making an effort is polite, and getting ready and looking after yourself makes an event more fun.

It is something that most parents hope for in life: That their children will be moderately successful, polite, decent human beings. Anything on top of that is something you have no right to hope for, but we all do.

Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them.

Polite conversation is rarely either.

There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.

I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.

Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.

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.'

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

Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.

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

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

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

The numbers are a catalyst that can help turn raving madmen into polite humans.

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

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.

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?

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

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?

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.

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

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

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

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

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.