A Quote by Caitlin Moran

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.

Caitlin Moran

Quote Topics

Being Being Polite Contribution Daily Earth Everyone Greatest Guidelines Humanity Important Life Make Most Must Polite Possibly Recall The Most Important

Quote Author

Caitlin Moran
British - Journalist
Born: April 5, 1975

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?'

will.i.am

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

Jean Kerr

My heroes in real life are definitely my mom for being true to herself, for having a foot in both worlds, for being so very polite - Canadian and also such a traditional Greek woman. I would sum it up this way: the life lesson she would say is be polite while you're breaking the rules.

Nia Vardalos

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.

Daniel Woodrell

When Gansey was polite, it made him powerful. When Adam was polite, he was giving power away.

Maggie Stiefvater

I don't want to be polite. I don't think campaigning is polite. That's a disingenuous effort.

Carl Paladino

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

I couldn't take that whole retail thing of being polite to people that are not being polite to you, and showing respect to people when they've got no respect for you. Retail in general is something I just can't do, unless it's my own shop.

Ashley Walters

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

Lisa Yuskavage

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.

Tamlyn Tomita

And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it's third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, it's much more polite.

Miriam Makeba

I grew up in a very polite family, and I suppose my parents were both very polite, and from the time I was a young boy, I suspected that there were passions seething underneath and not being mentioned, and that was something that came to preoccupy me. Somehow I had some drive to write down what people might really be thinking.

Wallace Shawn

Every single human being on this earth make a difference on this planet earth but each one of us make a different contribution and it will be a better contribution when we have more gratitude and more generosity, when we love more.