Top 702 Polite Quotes & Sayings

Polite conversation is rarely either.

murder is not polite.

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

I'm polite.

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

Polite beggary is too common.

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.

Death is never polite, even when we expect it.

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

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

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

Canadians are nice and polite. It's not just a stereotype.

Sometimes people confuse that polite players aren't competitive.

Rock 'n' roll was never supposed to be polite.

Matt's brother and the blond cook spent a good portion of last season tangling the sheets. Historically, said cook tangled many other sheets with dexterity and aplomb." "Aplomb" "It's a polite way to say she banged often, well and without too much discrimination." "That also sounded polite." "I was raised well.

Pantheism is only a polite form of atheism.

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

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

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.

Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.

People give out compliments because it's 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.

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.

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?'

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

Troubled is a polite word for what I am.

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.

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.

There is no polite way to say that business is destroying the world.

If a person feels terrible, it usually should not be shown or acknowledged during a greeting exchange. Instead, the unhappy person is expected to conceal negative feelings, putting on a polite smile to accompany the “Just fine, thank you, and how are you?” reply to the “How are you today?” The true feelings will probably go undetected, not because the smile is such a good mask but because in polite exchanges people rarely care how the other person actually feels.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

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

Scholarship is polite argument.

My only hope was to be polite.

I don't sugarcoat things, but I'm very polite in delivering them.

Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.

No language is rude that can boast polite writers.

Men of polite learning and a liberal education.

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

A lot of our lives are about being polite.

A real gentleman is as polite to a little girl as to a woman.

'Curvy' is just a polite way of saying 'fat.'

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.

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

I'm not disrespectful, I try to be polite.

I would hope I was raised polite and charming.

A question is a polite way of demanding something.

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.

Argument should be polite as well as logical.

With a polite smile, I decided she was insane.

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

When one is polite in German, one lies.

He was never more sinister than when he was most polite.

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

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.

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

I feel like every movie has been wish fulfillment. For The Heat, I love Lethal Weapon. I watch it over and over again. I always wanted a friend like that; I always wanted to be the badass taking down the drug dealers. It was basically just writing what I wished I could be. Female friendship is so interesting to me. I often feel like when you make female friends as adults, it's polite. I wish it was less polite and you could be frank and mess around with each other.

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.