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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

The help (in Japan) is very polite. They bow so much, you don't know which end to talk to. — Bob Hope

Love thy enemies, it says in the scriptures. My foster mother always added, At the very least, you will be polite to them. — Patricia Briggs

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

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

Polite fictions are very important for dragons. — Bard Bloom

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

Liz, you must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new. — Elizabeth Gilbert

I was a very polite schoolgirl who did her work very well and hid under tables. I'd hate to think I haven't changed at all. — Joan Juliet Buck

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

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

When thanksgiving is filled with true meaning and is not just the formality of a polite "thank you," it is the recognition of dependence. — Billy Graham

Ninety percent of the people in any group are nice, raised to be polite, and have more in common than not. — Susan RoAne

I can be very polite, but I've found that doesn't always get a result. You have got to bang and thump tables. — Joy Baluch

You said "Hi", I to be polite will say "Bye"! — Deyth Banger

Impermanence is the law of the universe. — Carlene Hatcher Polite

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

She didn't want to alienate herself from the very wealthy man that was about to offer her a job by declining the polite offer of a drink. — S.A. Tawks

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

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth. — Malcolm Bradbury

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

I'm very polite by nature, even the voices in my head let each other finish their sentences. — Graham Parke

If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered. — Stephen King

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

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

I find it very eerie when somebody is being really polite. — M. Night Shyamalan

Emily Post says that talking about oneself isn't very polite.' 'I'm sure Miss Post is perfectly correct, but that doesn't seem to stop the rest of us. — Amor Towles

I'm okay. Nobody's bothering me. Everyone's very kind, and very polite. I don't feel like my whole life changed. — Berenice Bejo

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

You're very polite, but I belong to another generation — F Scott Fitzgerald

You have to hold your audience in writing to the very end-much more than in talking, when people have to be polite and listen to you. — Brenda Ueland

She had the comfort of appearing very polite, while feeling very cross. — Jane Austen

A community where everyone is a ruthless murderer, with handy access to death-dealing devices, is a very polite community. — Robert A. Heinlein

Glasgow is less polite than Edinburgh but that's a good thing - they keep it very real. — Nik Kershaw

It is not very polite to interrupt a person, of course, but sometimes if the person is very unpleasant you can hardly stop yourself. — Lemony Snicket

If somebody is mean or rude, I just, I don't engage - just block and say, 'Well, that's not very polite.' — Bryan Fuller

The Germans and Austrians are very polite, the Swiss are very reserved and the Spanish usually kiss me. The Brits write me letters. — Donna Leon

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

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

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

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

I'm brash and abrasive but that's because I've noticed when people are nice and polite they never get anywhere. — Mahathir Mohamad

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

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

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

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

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

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

Me and polite have never been on close terms. — Jim Butcher

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

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

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

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

Be polite to all, friendly to none. Be professional. Be ready to kill everyone and everything. — Janet Morris

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

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

They were a pair of people with no middle ground, nothing between polite formalities and an engulfing intimacy — Alice Munro

Yanking his inner manwhore back to the land of polite conversating, he forced his hands to stop — J.R. Ward

Polite beggary is too common. — William Rounseville Alger

I'm not interested in being polite. It's false. — Libba Bray