Polite quotes
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It is not polite for a Russian to interfere in British politics.
-- Alexander Lebedev -
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 -
With a polite smile, I decided she was insane.
-- Ann Aguirre -
Do what comes into your life and do it well... Be polite without groveling. If you are ever afraid of anything, do not deny it, but behave as if you feared nothing.
-- Anna Lee -
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The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
-- Baron de Montesquieu -
Americans are incredibly polite as long as they get what they want.
-- Ben Fountain -
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 -
Politics is the polite way of telling somone else they’re stupid.
-- Burnie Burns -
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Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.
-- Christine Keeler -
What are sisters for if not to point out the things the rest of the world is too polite to mention.
-- Claire Cook -
I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people.
-- Daniel Clowes -
Sometimes we are too polite with our suffering and allow it to dominate our life.
-- Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche -
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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
-- e. e. cummings -
If you're going to kill the animal it seems only polite to use the whole thing.
-- Fergus Henderson -
A good apprentice cook must be as polite with the dishwasher as with the chef.
-- Fernand Point -
Troubled is a polite word for what I am.
-- Gabrielle -
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There are words to describe her, my dear, but one does not repeat them in polite company.
-- Gail Carriger -
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 was so excessively polite that Wallendar suspected he had endured many humiliations in his life.
-- Henning Mankell -
An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.
-- Hippocrates -
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Political correctness is what right-wing bigots call what everybody else calls being polite
-- Iain Banks -
Yanking his inner manwhore back to the land of polite conversating, he forced his hands to stop
-- J.R. Ward -
Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.
-- James Mattis -
Be polite to all, friendly to none. Be professional. Be ready to kill everyone and everything.
-- Janet Morris -
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I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.
-- Jessica Hagedorn -
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 -
Etiquette is the ceremonial code of polite life, more voluminous and minute in each portion of society according to its rank.
-- John Ramsay McCulloch -
Southerners will be polite until they are angry enough to kill you.
-- John Shelton Reed -
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I wasn't entirely sure, but a polite John Pritkin might be a sign of the apocalypse.
-- Karen Chance -
As a person, I'm polite - I want to please.
-- Karl Ove Knausgard -
...Everyone had to eat, but eating people wasn't polite.
-- Kim Harrison -
I’m not interested in being polite. It’s false.
-- Libba Bray -
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Presumably a movement is more polite than a revolution, and a lot slower.
-- Linda Ellerbee -
I find it very eerie when somebody is being really polite.
-- M. Night Shyamalan -
My only hope was to be polite.
-- Mark Vonnegut -
I'm big on my kids being conventionally polite, and it works really well for them.
-- Mayim Bialik -
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murder is not polite.
-- Mignon G. Eberhart -
I seem to have very polite fans, not fanatical ones.
-- Natalie Imbruglia -
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
-- Niels Bohr -
I come from people who have always been polite enough to feel that nothing has ever happened to them.
-- Patricia Hampl -
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Scholarship is polite argument.
-- Philip Rieff -
A community where everyone is a ruthless murderer, with handy access to death-dealing devices, is a very polite community.
-- Robert A. Heinlein -
I can't tell you. I would say that if I did, I would have to kill you, but that wouldn't be polite.
-- Sanjaya Malakar -
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
-- Sinclair Lewis -
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If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered.
-- Stephen King -
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 -
And the name of the one shall be Fearfulness. And the name of the other shall be Arrogance... Well, clearly you are not Fearfulness, so I suppose you must be Arrogance.' This was not very polite.
-- Susanna Clarke -
Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet.
-- Thelma Ritter -
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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
-- Thomas Jefferson -
Death is never polite, even when we expect it.
-- Tiny Tim -
I would say L.A. is more polite than London - it's a very careful place. People talk a lot in code.
-- Tom Hooper -
You don't feel honest on a date, I guess. You don't really get to learn about anyone. You're kind of being polite and you can ask the questions, it's just not a great time for me.
-- Vince Vaughn -
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Polite beggary is too common.
-- William Rounseville Alger -
In polite society one laughs at all the jokes, including the ones one has heard before.
-- Frank Dane -
Was [Adolf Hitler] rude to me? Never. He was always polite and well-mannered.
-- Gretl Braun -
You have to be polite with your friends and your family, but in your art, it's important to not be polite.
-- Lisa Yuskavage -
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We pretend that no one's a racist anymore, but it's easier to talk about pornography in polite company than racial integration
-- Bob Herbert -
I am a very frank person and that's how I hope to remain. I don't like to pretend to be polite. What you see is what you get.
-- Fan Bingbing -
I do have traditional values: I believe in being a good person and being polite.
-- FKA twigs -
I'm brash and abrasive but that's because I've noticed when people are nice and polite they never get anywhere.
-- Mahathir Mohamad -
