A Quote by Thomas Jefferson

Be polite to all, but intimate with few. — © Thomas Jefferson
Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
When I was shooting 'The Dark Knight,' I always felt like I was shooting an intimate drama for some reason. The scenes were all intimate, and they were always between a few individuals.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few.
When Gansey was polite, it made him powerful. When Adam was polite, he was giving power away.
I don't want to be polite. I don't think campaigning is polite. That's a disingenuous effort.
Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.
I learned my values. It's better to be poor than to be beholden. Wealth is not the object of life. You should be polite as long as possible, and when you can't be polite anymore, don't run.
We must recall the most important of humanity guidelines: Be polite. Being polite is possibly the greatest daily contribution everyone can make to life on Earth.
I loved you so much once. I did. More than anything in the whole wide world. Imagine that. What a laugh that is now. Can you believe it? We were so intimate once upon a time I can't believe it now. The memory of being that intimate with somebody. We were so intimate I could puke. I can't imagine ever being that intimate with somebody else. I haven't been.
The uber polite people who are the neighbors to our north and how we can be so different and yet so the same because Canadians are supremely polite. They're kind and they're just so welcoming to a bunch of American and British artists here filming their show.
I refused 'Chatuskone,' as I was required to wear revealing outfits and enact a few intimate scenes, which I was not comfortable with.
The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
'Beale Street' is such an intimate story that I think it requires intimate connections between the artists that are a part of it.
There's no chivalry in culture any more. Sometimes you meet someone who everyone says is polite and you're like, 'Wow,' but then it's like, 'Hang on, isn't everyone supposed to be polite?'
Kissing someone is pretty intimate, actually very intimate, and your heart always kind of skips a beat before you do that.
The whole country wants civility. Why don't we have it? It doesn't cost anything. No federal funding, no legislation is involved. One answer is the unwillingness to restrain oneself. Everybody wants other people to be polite to them, but they want the freedom of not having to be polite to others.
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