Top 1200 Being Polite Quotes & Sayings

I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody.

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

The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don't want to be.

After a while, being so honest and so vulnerable on the page ends up affecting my own kind of self possession in the world, because I am not afraid of myself and my own thoughts. I think so much of being a woman, of being a social being, of being polite, is quieting those thoughts. There's so much we try not to say as we go through the day. There's a lot of tempering and self-editing. It is a relief to make writing that space where I don't need to do that.

I get into an awful lot of trouble for not being 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.

Being English, we're polite and reserved, we don't express our opinions; we're very private people.

Canadians are more polite when they are being rude than Americans are when they are being friendly.

I am done being polite. I am done being politically correct. I am mad as hell, so I am asking the members of the press to send a mayday call all over the world.

It's one of the advantages of being a woman. I get to do all sorts of unfair things, and you have to accept them because you're too polite not to. --Polgara

The secret of a happy marriage is simple: Just keep on being as polite to one another as you are to your friends.

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

Southerners pride themselves on being polite. This is why we always use euphemisms to express ourselves.

Being polite to a person is not a sign of respect for them. It is merely a sign of a good upbringing and a balanced nature.

My parents raised me to treat people the way you would want to be treated and to be polite. Sometimes, when I get nervous or insecure, I might overcompensate and might not be totally true to what I am feeling inside. But I get nervous and maybe too smiley and polite.

If you are being interviewed, just be polite, have fun.

I grew up being taught, 'Do unto others as they would do unto you.' I would get scolded for not being polite.

My mother is old-fashioned; she raised us like girls from a 19th-century book. My sisters and I are known for being the most polite girls in France. My mother wanted us to be like royalty: never ever will you be caught being rude, or superficial or being a star or whatever.

Being polite is not only the right way to respond to people but also the easiest. Life is so filled with unavoidable conflict that I see no reason to promote more confrontations.

Being polite does not mean being mummified.

The trouble is, if you go too far towards being polite, the label that applies is "doormat".

We often laughed at others in our house, and I picked up the craft of being polite while people were present and laughing later if there was anything to laugh about.

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

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.

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.

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.

Our communities are being destroyed by racial tension - and we're too polite to talk about it.

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’m not interested in being polite. It’s false.

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.

A lot of our lives are about being polite.

I'm so British and polite that creating a scene or being confrontational is so not my vibe.

We must stop being polite and behaved and find new inventive tactics to shift the paradigm. We are the majority.

I'm being ironic. Don't interrupt a man in the midst of being ironic, it's not polite. There!

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.

I wish my nose was smaller and that I was a little taller. I also had this perennial pimple problem, so I felt people were just being polite when they said I was beautiful.

If a man isn't being nice when you're out, all you have to do is remain polite and then go home early.

One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else.

Women have got to stop being polite. If I ever had children, which I don't, the first thing I'd teach a girl of mine is the words 'f - off.'

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

T stands for being nice. T stands for manners. T stands for being polite.

A car to pick me up every day, a chair with my name on it, everybody being very polite... what can you do except sit back and watch it all, try to take it all in?

In Japan, you have no idea what they are saying, and they can't help you either. Nothing makes any sense. They're very polite, but you feel like a joke is being played on you the entire time you're there.

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.

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.

Being polite, being respectful, having manners, and being a socialite - they're key life skills that people take for granted. Being able to communicate with all people on all levels is what's got me so far.

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

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

If you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway.

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.

It's important to be courteous; it has to be. I was raised very well by my parents, so it's about being polite and courteous.

A man must have very eminent qualities to hold his own without being polite.

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.

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?'

Being politically correct means saying what's polite rather than what's accurate. I like to be accurate.

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

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

I pride myself on being fairly polite on a set so it's kind of a guilty pleasure to poke others on the set.

I have seen people rude by being over-polite.

My parents were very strict about manners and being polite to others. I brought my own children up that way, too.