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I have seen people rude by being over-polite.
— Michel De Montaigne
He didn't say anything to the contrary or interrupt me in any way, which was nice. (Polite listening skills really are rare, don't you think?)
— Matthew Quick
He was polite, respectful, not daring even to hold Mi-ran's hand until they'd been dating for three years.
— Barbara Demick
A natural, polite smile deceives no one.
— Ogwo David Emenike
Normally it is not polite to go into somebody's room without knocking, but you can make an exception if the person is dead, or pretending to be dead.
— Daniel Handler
When you don't know everything that you could know, it's a fine time to shut your fucking noisemaker and be polite.
— Scott Lynch
When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine that he is polite all the time.
— E.W. Howe
Track is full of the absolute nicest and most polite athletes in all of sports, and where does it get us?
— Malcolm Gladwell
I do not see why I should be polite to tyrants, who slobber of humanitarianism and think only of their own petty interests.
— Paul Feyerabend
News' is often a polite way of saying 'editor's whim.
— Tom Rachman
Balanced is probably what I am, although that's just a polite way to say that you don't do anything very well.
— Steve Yzerman
Grey doesn't do nice. He does polite, maybe. And
— E.L. James
A nasty letter or a sarcastic one can make you righteously angry, but what can you do about a polite letter of rejection? Nothing, really, except cry.
— E.L. Konigsburg
Ninety percent of the people in any group are nice, raised to be polite, and have more in common than not.
— Susan RoAne
I would hope I was raised polite and charming.
— Douglas Booth
Try to be polite.""I'm always polite."
"You're always eyeing people's valuables. That's hardly polite. — Jodi Meadows
We must stop being polite and behaved, and find new inventive tactics to shift the paradigm. We are the majority.
— Eve Ensler
You said "Hi", I to be polite will say "Bye"!
— Deyth Banger
Impermanence is the law of the universe.
— Carlene Hatcher Polite
In the sallies of badinage a polite fool shines; but in gravity he is as awkward as an elephant disporting.
— Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann
There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.
— George Santayana
A real gentleman is as polite to a little girl as to a woman.
— Louisa May Alcott
You don't take your cat with you to go bird shopping. Not because the cat isn't polite, but because he's a cat.
— Jim Butcher
At a certain point, it seems more polite to just become the person people assume you to be.
— Heidi Julavits
Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady. Their lives are hard enough, and it never hurts to be polite.
— Patrick Rothfuss
In Amos' experience the more dangerous any two people were, the more carefully polite their social interactions tended to be.
— James S.A. Corey
If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered.
— Stephen King
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
— Robert A. Heinlein
To succeed inside a political party, one must cultivate an ability to sit still and remain polite while foolish people speak nonsense
— Morton Blackwell
Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children.
— Susan George
It is not polite for a Russian to interfere in British politics.
— Alexander Lebedev
She wants to be polite and not hurt your feelings, so she's not going to laugh right now. But inside, inside she's laughing.
— Derek Landy
Chocolate is good for three things. Two of them can't be mentioned in polite company.
— Jill Shalvis
Political correctness is what right-wing bigots call what everybody else calls being polite
— Iain Banks
So when you inhale and exhale, notice your breath and realize God is dwelling in your chest.
— Trinka Polite
You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing.
— George McGovern
Drew takes the praise in stride and simply smiles, a polite smile,
— Kristen Callihan
An American is insubmissive, lonely, self-educated, and polite.
— Thornton Wilder
I'm brash and abrasive but that's because I've noticed when people are nice and polite they never get anywhere.
— Mahathir Mohamad
I'm not interested in being polite. It's false.
— Libba Bray
A question is a polite way of demanding something.
— Edward De Bono
I was raised to be polite, but not to suffer bullshit.
— Stephen King
There's no polite way to say to somebody (religious followers) 'Do you realize you've wasted your life?
— Daniel Dennett
I would say L.A. is more polite than London - it's a very careful place. People talk a lot in code.
— Tom Hooper
Being politically correct means saying what's polite rather than what's accurate. I like to be accurate.
— Robert Kiyosaki
I am James Burlough, the Earl of Deerhurst.' The earl's pleasant smile capsized into not-quite-polite puzzlement. 'And who might you be, sir?
— Suzanne Enoch
Lymond's behaviour, as always, went to the limits of polite usage and then hurtled off into space.
— Dorothy Dunnett
Polite beggary is too common.
— William Rounseville Alger
In polite society what you say to an attractive woman who is dressed in a way that makes you understand the power of biology is, "You look nice.
— Joe R. Lansdale
Patience can be a good thing - but not necessarily. Sometimes it's not so bad to be impatient. I'm a little bit too polite.
— Helen Mirren
In polite society one laughs at all the jokes, including the ones one has heard before.
— Frank Dane
Don't underestimate the Canadians, I always say. They seem all nice and polite and apologetic, but when it comes right down to it, they're survivors.
— Karen McQuestion
I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.
— Duane Michals
I seem to have very polite fans, not fanatical ones.
— Natalie Imbruglia
You have to be polite with your friends and your family, but in your art, it's important to not be polite.
— Lisa Yuskavage
I ain't saying you're a liar, because that wouldn't be polite. But I'll tell you this, ma'am. If I loved liars, I'd hug you to death.
— Jim Thompson
A lot of our lives are about being polite.
— Rachelle Lefevre
It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.
— Russell Lynes
Be polite to all, friendly to none. Be professional. Be ready to kill everyone and everything.
— Janet Morris
Even when I have bad manners... I'm still polite!
— Jose N. Harris
My mother always told me it wasn't polite to ask what people make.
— Clint Eastwood
Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow.
— Jonathan Swift
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
— Sinclair Lewis
The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
— Malcolm Bradbury
A man must have very eminent qualities to hold his own without being polite.
— Jean De La Bruyere
It's probably polite to pretend you don't see people coming out of pawnshops, anyhow.
— Dashiell Hammett
Me and polite have never been on close terms.
— Jim Butcher
Make me, dear Lord, polite and kind,To everyone, I pray.
And may I ask you how you find
Yourself, dear Lord, today? — John B. Tabb
Every one in polite circles knew that, in America, "a gentleman couldn't go into politics." But,
— Edith Wharton
Never wear pride as the jersey of your dreams. You will miss the goal and lose your dreams if you put on pride!
— Israelmore Ayivor
