Polite Quotes

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

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

The great thing about novels is that you can be as unshy as you want to be. I'm very polite in person. I don't want to talk about startling or upsetting things with people.

No one who is at all acquainted with the Indian in his home can deny that we are a polite people.

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

Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.

The concert is a polite form of self induced torture.

Balanced is probably what I am, although that's just a polite way to say that you don't do anything very well.

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

I never feel there's anything I can't do.

I don't write polite letters. I don't like to plea-bargain. I like to fight.

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

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

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

The Germans and Austrians are very polite, the Swiss are very reserved and the Spanish usually kiss me. The Brits write me letters.

It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.

It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.

My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous.

Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet.