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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
When politeness is used to show up other people, it is reclassified as rudeness. Thus it is technically impossible to be too polite.
— Judith Martin
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
He said that we had just had an argument, what more did I want?It was too polite, I said. — Alice Munro
Come, daddy, Harry doesn't want to talk to us right now. He's just too polite to say it. ~Luna Lovegood
— J.K. Rowling
The trouble is, if you go too far towards being polite, the label that applies is "doormat".
— Charles Stross
Track is full of the absolute nicest and most polite athletes in all of sports, and where does it get us?
— Malcolm Gladwell
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
You said "Hi", I to be polite will say "Bye"!
— Deyth Banger
There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.
— George Santayana
To succeed inside a political party, one must cultivate an ability to sit still and remain polite while foolish people speak nonsense
— Morton Blackwell
I seem to have very polite fans, not fanatical ones.
— Natalie Imbruglia
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
— Sinclair Lewis
Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow.
— Jonathan Swift
My mother always told me it wasn't polite to ask what people make.
— Clint Eastwood
Even when I have bad manners... I'm still polite!
— Jose N. Harris
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
Be polite to all, friendly to none. Be professional. Be ready to kill everyone and everything.
— Janet Morris
It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.
— Russell Lynes
What are sisters for if not to point out the things the rest of the world is too polite to mention.
— Claire Cook
As the boy looked at it, my thing moved and he whispered "It is splendid! Do let me try its love-making" ...And I was too polite to disobey. — Henry M. Christman
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
It is better to be too honest to be polite than to be too polite to be honest!
— Andre Comte-Sponville
I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.
— Duane Michals
His mother had often told Lock that he was much too polite to ever be a true intellectual.
— Shelly Laurenston
Sometimes we are too polite with our suffering and allow it to dominate our life.
— Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
You're thinking too hard about how to respond to my stupidity. Have to be polite don't you?
— Jodi Meadows
It was not flirting, just verbal ping-pong. I was dying to slam the ball but too polite to stop the back-and-forth.
— Andre Aciman
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
I'm brash and abrasive but that's because I've noticed when people are nice and polite they never get anywhere.
— Mahathir Mohamad
Lymond's behaviour, as always, went to the limits of polite usage and then hurtled off into space.
— Dorothy Dunnett
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
Being politically correct means saying what's polite rather than what's accurate. I like to be accurate.
— Robert Kiyosaki
I would say L.A. is more polite than London - it's a very careful place. People talk a lot in code.
— Tom Hooper
There's no polite way to say to somebody (religious followers) 'Do you realize you've wasted your life?
— Daniel Dennett
I was raised to be polite, but not to suffer bullshit.
— Stephen King
A question is a polite way of demanding something.
— Edward De Bono
A man must have very eminent qualities to hold his own without being polite.
— Jean De La Bruyere
I'm not interested in being polite. It's false.
— Libba Bray
Polite beggary is too common.
— William Rounseville Alger
Yanking his inner manwhore back to the land of polite conversating, he forced his hands to stop
— J.R. Ward
In polite society one laughs at all the jokes, including the ones one has heard before.
— Frank Dane
They were a pair of people with no middle ground, nothing between polite formalities and an engulfing intimacy
— Alice Munro
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
Every one in polite circles knew that, in America, "a gentleman couldn't go into politics." But,
— Edith Wharton
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
Me and polite have never been on close terms.
— Jim Butcher
