Polite Quotes

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

I want someone honest, someone who's very sweet to my family and friends, and polite to the other people around me.

My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing and solving our real problems.

And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it's third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, it's much more polite.

When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine that he is polite all the time.

The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did.

In Sweden everybody has this perfect surface. Everyone's very polite and controls their feelings.

Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change.

It is harder to lie in an interview. A good interview - and it can be polite - is not a one way street like a candidate controlled ad. An interview is not programmed by the candidate and so the candidate can't be exactly sure what will be asked.

The concert is a polite form of self induced torture.

My mom always taught me to be sweet and polite and cross my legs because it's what the guys like. Actually, they like a raunchy girl once in a while.

No one who is at all acquainted with the Indian in his home can deny that we are a polite people.

It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.

Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at Pearl Harbor's officers' mess and are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945.

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.

A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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