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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.' — Gary Allan

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

A Russian imbues his polite things with a heartiness, both of phrase and expression, that compels belief in their sincerity. — Mark Twain

If a woman cannot make her mistakes charming, she is only a female. — Oscar Wilde

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

Dwarf mothers didn't handicap their young by teaching them to be polite. My neighbors were as short on manners as they were on stature. — Erik Bundy

He said that we had just had an argument, what more did I want?
It was too polite, I said. — Alice Munro

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

The whole reason Fenrir's name is Fenrir is because man-hating-bitch-from-Hell is too much of a mouthful, and you can't say it in polite company. — C. Gockel

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

How many times have I told you? Polite persons do not take supper in the nude. — Ransom Riggs

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

Presumably a movement is more polite than a revolution, and a lot slower. — Linda Ellerbee

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

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

Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved? — Jeff Goodell

I seem to have very polite fans, not fanatical ones. — Natalie Imbruglia

Death is never polite, even when we expect it. — Tiny Tim

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

She had ignored the Heidlers because she realized that she could afford to display coldness, and that no good ever comes from being too polite. — Jean Rhys

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

added because it was the polite thing to do. "I'm going home," Cricket insisted as if Anna had threatened to drag her bodily back into the — Nevada Barr

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

He was composed, polite, and intelligent. All the things a prince should be. — Kiera Cass

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

When I ask Connie about China, she gives nice, polite prepackaged answers. She is used to talking about it. She wants to make sure I have a nice time. — Anonymous

Politics is the polite way of telling somone else they're stupid. — Burnie Burns

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

Begging everyone's pardon," said Big Konar, "but it ain't polite to have an argument if nobody else knows what the fuck you're arguing about. — Scott Lynch

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

An excuse is a polite rejection. Men are not afraid of 'ruining the friendship. — Greg Behrendt

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

It's impossible to expect polite behavior from people who've never witnessed it. — Kathleen Parker

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

It's probably polite to pretend you don't see people coming out of pawnshops, anyhow. — Dashiell Hammett