100+ Polite Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

It is not polite for a Russian to interfere in British politics.

source: "Alexander Lebedev profile: ex-KGB agent says he will champion a free press". Interview with Luke Harding, www.theguardian.com. January, 14, 2009.

topic: British, Polite, Interfere, British Politics

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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

source: Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility”, p.34, Hachette UK

topic: Talking, Missing, Polite

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With a polite smile, I decided she was insane.

- Ann Aguirre

topic: Insane, Polite

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

topic: Deny, Groveling, Polite

The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.

- Baron de Montesquieu

topic: Time, Busy, Polite

Americans are incredibly polite as long as they get what they want.

- Ben Fountain

source: Ben Fountain (2012). “Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk”, p.36, Canongate Books

topic: Long, Want, Polite

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

topic: Thankfulness, Recognition, Polite, True Meaning

Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.

- Christine Keeler

topic: Hypocrisy, Polite, Discretion

What are sisters for if not to point out the things the rest of the world is too polite to mention.

- Claire Cook

source: Claire Cook (2014). “Must Love Dogs: New Leash on Life”, p.188, Marshbury Beach Books

topic: World, Polite

I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people.

- Daniel Clowes

topic: People, Type, Polite

Sometimes we are too polite with our suffering and allow it to dominate our life.

- Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

topic: Suffering, Sometimes, Polite

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

- e. e. cummings

topic: Imagination, Buried, Polite

If you're going to kill the animal it seems only polite to use the whole thing.

- Fergus Henderson

topic: Animal, Use, Polite

A good apprentice cook must be as polite with the dishwasher as with the chef.

- Fernand Point

topic: Chef, Dishwashers, Polite

Troubled is a polite word for what I am.

- Gabrielle

topic: Polite

There are words to describe her, my dear, but one does not repeat them in polite company.

- Gail Carriger

topic: Doe, Polite, Dear

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

topic: Doors, Fans, Polite, Uninvited, Uninvited Guests

He was so excessively polite that Wallendar suspected he had endured many humiliations in his life.

- Henning Mankell

topic: Humiliation, Polite

An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign.

- Hippocrates

topic: Polite, Persons, Insolent

Political correctness is what right-wing bigots call what everybody else calls being polite

- Iain Banks

source: Iain Banks (2008). “Dead Air”, p.118, Hachette UK

topic: Wings, Political, Polite, Being Polite, Correctness

Yanking his inner manwhore back to the land of polite conversating, he forced his hands to stop

- J.R. Ward

topic: Hands, Land, Polite

Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.

- James Mattis

source: "'Fiasco'". armedforcesjournal.com. August 01, 2006.

topic: Bad Ass, Ass, Polite, Courteous, Killing Everyone

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

- Janet Morris

source: Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.127, Paradise Publishing

topic: Discipline, Friendly, Polite

I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.

- Jessica Hagedorn

source: Interview with Kay Bonetti, www.english.illinois.edu.

topic: Underdog, Polite, Valuable

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

source: Jim Thompson (2010). “POP. 1280”, p.9, Hachette UK

topic: Liars, Hug, Polite, Hug You, You Re A Liar

Etiquette is the ceremonial code of polite life, more voluminous and minute in each portion of society according to its rank.

- John Ramsay McCulloch

topic: Minutes, Etiquette, Polite

Southerners will be polite until they are angry enough to kill you.

- John Shelton Reed

topic: Enough, Polite, Angry

I wasn't entirely sure, but a polite John Pritkin might be a sign of the apocalypse.

- Karen Chance

source: Karen Chance (2008). “Embrace the Night”, p.31, Penguin

topic: Might, Apocalypse, Polite

As a person, I'm polite - I want to please.

- Karl Ove Knausgard

source: "Karl Ove Knausgaard: 'I have given away my soul'". Interview With Jon Henley, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2012.

topic: Want, Polite, Please

...Everyone had to eat, but eating people wasn't polite.

- Kim Harrison

topic: People, Eating, Polite

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

- Linda Ellerbee

topic: Movement, Revolution, Polite

I find it very eerie when somebody is being really polite.

- M. Night Shyamalan

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Eerie, Being Real, Polite

My only hope was to be polite.

- Mark Vonnegut

topic: Polite

I'm big on my kids being conventionally polite, and it works really well for them.

- Mayim Bialik

topic: Kids, Bigs, Polite

murder is not polite.

- Mignon G. Eberhart

topic: Murder, Polite

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

- Natalie Imbruglia

topic: Fans, Polite

It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.

- Niels Bohr

topic: Enough, Polite

I come from people who have always been polite enough to feel that nothing has ever happened to them.

- Patricia Hampl

topic: People, Enough, Polite

Scholarship is polite argument.

- Philip Rieff

topic: Argument, Scholarship, Polite

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

- Robert A. Heinlein

topic: Community, Polite, Murderer

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

topic: Polite

Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.

- Sinclair Lewis

topic: Writing, Safe, Polite

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

- Stephen King

topic: Writing, Members, Polite

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

source: IGN Interview, www.ign.com. December 1, 2003.

topic: Way, Polite, Wells

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

source: Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.799, Bloomsbury Publishing

topic: Names, Arrogance, Polite

Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet.

- Thelma Ritter

topic: Killing, Polite, Rear Window

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Cynicism, Intimate, Polite

Death is never polite, even when we expect it.

- Tiny Tim

topic: Polite

I would say L.A. is more polite than London - it's a very careful place. People talk a lot in code.

- Tom Hooper

topic: People, London, Polite

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

topic: Honest, Kind, Polite, Being Polite

Polite beggary is too common.

- William Rounseville Alger

topic: Common, Polite, Request, Beggary

In polite society one laughs at all the jokes, including the ones one has heard before.

- Frank Dane

topic: Laughing, Polite, Heard

Was [Adolf Hitler] rude to me? Never. He was always polite and well-mannered.

- Gretl Braun

topic: Rude, Well Mannered, Polite

You have to be polite with your friends and your family, but in your art, it's important to not be polite.

- Lisa Yuskavage

topic: Art, Important, Polite

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

topic: Racist, Easier, Polite

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

source: Source: travel.cnn.com

topic: Polite, Frank, Persons

I do have traditional values: I believe in being a good person and being polite.

- FKA twigs

source: Source: www.vanityfair.com

topic: Believe, Good Person, Polite, Being Polite, Traditional Values

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

- Mahathir Mohamad

topic: Nice, People, Polite, Brash

Baltimore is warm but pleasant... I belong here, where everything is civilized and gay and rotted and polite.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli, Judith Baughman (1994). “A Life in Letters”, p.291, Simon and Schuster

topic: Gay, Baltimore, Polite

In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies.

- Stephen King

topic: Hobbies, Obsession, Polite

Comedy isn't polite and it isn't correct and it isn't accurate, even. It's just a mess. So that's the way that I approach it.

- Louis C. K.

topic: Way, Comedy, Polite

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Impossible, Polite, Company

Me and polite have never been on close terms.

- Jim Butcher

source: Jim Butcher (2010). “Side Jobs: Stories from the Dresden Files”, p.97, Penguin

topic: Term, Polite

I've never had a meth habit, I don't walk around naked, and unless I'm actively provoked, I'm generally polite and well-spoken.

- Jim Goad

source: Source: love-and-pop.com

topic: Naked, Habit, Polite

When one is polite in German, one lies.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Lying, Polite

A lot of our lives are about being polite.

- Rachelle Lefevre

source: Source: twilight.tribute.ca

topic: Polite, Being Polite, Our Lives

There is no polite way to suggest to someone that they have devoted their life to a folly.

- Daniel Dennett

topic: Way, Polite, Folly, Theist

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

- Daniel Handler

topic: Sometimes, Polite, Persons

It was not polite for a Temujai general to allow his emotions to show.

- John Flanagan

topic: Emotion, Polite, Shows

Men of polite learning and a liberal education.

- Matthew Henry

source: Matthew Henry, J.B Williams (1828). “Exposition of the Old and New Testament”, p.788

topic: Learning, Men, Polite, Liberal Education

'Tis happy for him that his Father was born before him.

- Jonathan Swift

source: "Parodies, Hoaxes, Mock Treatises: Polite Conversation, Directions to Servants and Other Works".

topic: Father, Conversation, Polite, Polite Conversation

The English are busy; they don't have time to be polite.

- Baron de Montesquieu

source: 'Pensèes et fragments inèdits de Montesquieu' vol. 2 (1901) no. 1428

topic: Busy, Polite

It's not considered polite in Russia to count the money in someone else's pocket.

- Vladimir Putin

topic: Russia, Pockets, Polite

I have seen people rude by being over-polite.

- Michel de Montaigne

source: Michel de Montaigne, Marvin Lowenthal (1999). “The Autobiography of Michel de Montaigne: Comprising the Life of the Wisest Man of His Times : His Childhood, Youth, and Prime : His Adventures in Love and Marriage, at Court, and in Office, War, Revolution, and Plague : His Travels at Home and Abroad : His Habits, Tastes, Whims, and Opinions”, p.97, David R. Godine Publisher

topic: People, Rude, Polite

I think I've realized that business and being polite [don't] match. You can be fair, but me being polite was not me being fair to myself.

- Beyonce Knowles

topic: Dream, Thinking, Polite, Being Polite

I will die for the art & what I believe in. The art ain't always gon' be polite.

- Kanye West

topic: Art, Believe, Polite

The audience was swell. They were so polite they covered their mouths when they yawned.

- Bob Hope

topic: Mouths, Polite, Audience

A question is a polite way of demanding something.

- Edward de Bono