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When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. -- Winston Churchill
Obviously I'm going to be polite, so nobody has anything to fear from me. -- Judith Martin
The last thing I want to do is get togged up, go out and be polite. -- Greg Wise
I don't want to be polite. I don't think campaigning is polite. That's a disingenuous effort. -- Carl Paladino
Women are taught that if you want to be a lady, keep your opinions to yourself and be polite. -- Judy Gold
Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite. -- Jean Kerr
Texas, to be respected must be polite. Santa Anna living, can be of incalculable benefit to Texas; Santa Anna dead, would just be another dead Mexican. -- Sam Houston
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
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
My only hope was to be polite. -- Mark Vonnegut
Argument should be polite as well as logical. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
The English are busy; they don't have time to be polite. -- Baron de Montesquieu
Everyone Is God speaking. Why not be polite and Listen to Him? -- Hafez
It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite. -- Niels Bohr
A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion. -- Voltaire
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite. -- Baron de Montesquieu
I will die for the art & what I believe in. The art ain't always gon' be polite. -- Kanye West
Please be polite. Nothing in life should erode the habit of saying thank you to people or praising them. -- Richard Branson
You have to be polite with your friends and your family, but in your art, it's important to not be polite. -- Lisa Yuskavage
Ninety percent of the people in any group are nice, raised to be polite, and have more in common than not. -- Susan RoAne
One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else. -- Diane Setterfield
I can't tell you. I would say that if I did, I would have to kill you, but that wouldn't be polite. -- Sanjaya Malakar
She wants to be polite and not hurt your feelings, so she's not going to laugh right now. But inside, inside she's laughing. -- Derek Landy
I do not see why I should be polite to tyrants, who slobber of humanitarianism and think only of their own petty interests. -- Paul Feyerabend
Love thy enemies, it says in the scriptures. My foster mother always added, "At the very least, you will be polite to them. -- Patricia Briggs
Gran was just being polite. Southern people are supposed to be polite and gracious. She's trying to show me how to be the same way. -- Lauraine Snelling
That quality is what makes women great collaborators; we understand it's a team effort. Even if it comes from society telling us to be polite. -- Rachel Bloom
If a Democrat took Republicans on rudely, they wouldn't be elevated in the Democratic Party. There's a different standard. We're supposed to be polite to people. -- Dan Malloy
If a Democrat took Republicans on rudely, they wouldn't be elevated in the Democratic Party. There's a different standard. We're supposed to be polite to people. -- Dan Malloy
I ain't saying you're a liar, because that wouldn't be polite. But I'll tell you this, ma'am. If I loved liars, I'd hug you to death. -- Jim Thompson
You have to hold your audience in writing to the very end-much more than in talking, when people have to be polite and listen to you. -- Brenda Ueland
Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance. -- Benny Goodman
Always be polite to a dragon. It's harder than it sounds. Dragon etiquette is incredibly complicated, and if you make a mistake, the dragon eats you. -- Patricia C. Wrede
Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not be polite to show one's wit. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I am a very frank person and that's how I hope to remain. I don't like to pretend to be polite. What you see is what you get. -- Fan Bingbing
How foolish to think that one can ever slam the door in the face of age. Much wiser to be polite and gracious and ask him to lunch in advance. -- Noel Coward
I did think reviewers were supposed to be polite about story collections - collections are rather delicate creatures in the literary environment - but not everybody got this memo, I guess. -- Lorrie Moore
I hate it when people are impolite to waiters or to the valet or the guy in the supermarket. There's no need for that; it doesn't cost anything to be polite. -- Ashley Madekwe
I think if anything I am perhaps more inclined than most people are to be polite and considerate because I am aware that human relationships are innately fragile and kind of dangerous. -- Alex Colville
I felt rather exhausted, and wondered, rather shocked at my callous thought, why old people were sometimes such a strain. Worse than young children or puppies because one had to be polite. -- Daphne du Maurier
The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple it, and make it forever infamous and ridiculous. -- H. L. Mencken
Sometimes if you have very confident people, you have to tell them please, be polite, there are other players are good enough as you and you should never speak out of an orchestra. -- Kurt Masur
In society, there is enormous pressure for us to try and look good, to be politically correct, to say the right things, to be polite and basically to sacrifice ourselves on the way. -- Thalia
There is this immediate connection, this intimacy when you're acting because there's no room to be polite or shy. Also, as an actor I get to connect with women I've never met before. -- Jessica Chastain
Citizens everywhere, and especially soldiers, should remember that entrenched bureaucracy, whatever the level, can be overcome. You've got to stick to it, be polite but firm, and just not take no for an answer. -- William G. Bainbridge
When a book of mine comes out, I instantly go hunting the net, not for praise, but for criticism, because that's how you learn, from people who don't have to be polite to you. -- J. Michael Straczynski
Be aware of who in your life is actually interested in hearing you discuss your writing, and who's just asking to be polite. Listening to writers talk about their work is often excruciatingly dull. -- Hanya Yanagihara
Elegance is like manners. You canâ??t be polite only on Wednesday or Thursday. If you are elegant, you should be every day of the week. If you are not, then itâ??s another matter. -- Aldo Gucci
A man needs to be polite, not just to me but to everyone. I watch that. How does he treat the waiter? How does he treat the coat-check girl? How does he treat the driver? -- Adriana Lima
God," I moaned. "Do they use that stuff as rocket fuel?" "No one made you keep drinking it." "Hey, don't get preachy. Besides, I had to be polite." "Sure," she said. -- Richelle Mead
Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but 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. -- Stephen King
You need people in a society to have reached a certain standard of living before they can be polite. You learn how to respect others because you don't have to fight as much, you have what you need. -- Cristian Mungiu
When youre a new person and a new idea, you get invited to all these different things, and everybody wants a piece of you. And you want to be polite and say yes to everything, but it gets dangerous. -- Theophilus London
People in day-to-day life tend to skim the surface of things and be polite and careful, and that's not the language I speak. I like talking about feelings, fears and memories, anguish and joy, and I find it in music. -- Shirley Manson
To be polite to everybody except the people they love most is a nervous affectation that afflicts many families ... when they come home, they take off their smiles and soft words, and sit about, spiritually in their underwear. This isn't pretty. -- Margaret Fishback
I am an incorrigible devotee to solitude, and am never so cheerful, I believe, or so unruffled by small difficulties as when I'm alone. There's a sort of obligation to be polite and pleasant to yourself when nobody else is round ... -- Susan Hale
Create your own job. Become the master of what you do. Fully imerse yourself in your culter. Be humble. You are never above having to pack boxes. Never forget where you came from. And always be polite. Good old-fashioned manners can get you very far. -Jenne Lomardo -- Sophia Amoruso
It is harder to lie in an interview. A good interview - and it can be polite - is not a one way street like a candidate controlled ad. An interview is not programmed by the candidate and so the candidate can't be exactly sure what will be asked. -- Greta Van Susteren
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. -- Stephen King
Don't be polite.Bite in.Pick it up with your fingers and lick the juice that may run down your chin. It is ready and ripe now, whenever you are. You do not need a knife or fork or spoon.For there is no coreor stemor rindor pitor seedor skinto throw away. -- Eve Merriam
Be polite to all, but intimate with few. -- Thomas Jefferson
Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite. -- Wyndham Lewis
Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness. -- Otto von Bismarck
Being politically correct means saying what's polite rather than what's accurate. I like to be accurate. -- Robert Kiyosaki
I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people. -- Daniel Clowes
The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don't want to be. -- Eric Clapton
I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society. -- Jessica Hagedorn
Democracy isn't solely about polite conversations in parliaments. It needs to be continually refreshed with raw passions, anger and ideals. -- Geoff Mulgan
murder is not polite. -- Mignon G. Eberhart
Scholarship is polite argument. -- Philip Rieff
Polite beggary is too common. -- William Rounseville Alger
Polite conversation is rarely either. -- Fran Lebowitz
An armed society is a polite society. -- Robert A. Heinlein
People give out compliments because it's polite. -- Boots Riley
A natural, polite smile deceives no one. -- Ogwo David Emenike
Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy -- Christine Keeler
Manners without sincerity, is called polite society -- Josh Stern
Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy. -- Christine Keeler
To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise. -- Alexander Pope
In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies. -- Stephen King
Men of polite learning and a liberal education. -- Matthew Henry
Pantheism is only a polite form of atheism. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
The king of kind hearts and polite fellows" -- Herman Melville
When one is polite in German, one lies. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I have seen people rude by being over-polite. -- Michel de Montaigne
...Everyone had to eat, but eating people wasn't polite. -- Kim Harrison
A question is a polite way of demanding something. -- Edward de Bono
No language is rude that can boast polite writers. -- Aubrey Beardsley
Killing people was far easier than making polite chitchat. -- Jennifer Estep
Death is never polite, even when we expect it. -- Tiny Tim
Me and polite have never been on close terms. -- Jim Butcher
With a polite smile, I decided she was insane. -- Ann Aguirre
A lot of our lives are about being polite. -- Rachelle Lefevre
Troubled is a polite word for what I am. -- Gabrielle
Curvy is just a polite way of saying fat. -- Hannah Simone
Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet. -- Thelma Ritter
Canadians are nice and polite. It's not just a stereotype. -- Justin Trudeau
Iâ??m not interested in being polite. Itâ??s false. -- Libba Bray
Greatness starts with the replacement of hatred with polite disdain. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The concert is a polite form of self induced torture. -- Henry Miller
I seem to have very polite fans, not fanatical ones. -- Natalie Imbruglia
As a person, I'm polite - I want to please. -- Karl Ove Knausgard
Curvy' is just a polite way of saying 'fat.' -- Hannah Simone
'Curvy' is just a polite way of saying 'fat.' -- Hannah Simone
Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves. -- Ambrose Bierce
Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination. -- e. e. cummings
My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous. -- Paul McCartney
I've never been afraid to make a polite ask to someone. -- Gerald Chertavian
I find it very eerie when somebody is being really polite. -- M. Night Shyamalan
He was never more sinister than when he was most polite... -- James M. Barrie
An insolent reply from a polite person is a bad sign. -- Hippocrates
I love to see a dedicated, loyal and a polite fans! -- Greyson Chance
Polite Conversation 'Tis happy for him, that his father was before him. -- Jonathan Swift
Politics is the polite way of telling somone else theyâ??re stupid. -- Burnie Burns
It's impossible to expect polite behavior from people who've never witnessed it. -- Kathleen Parker
Americans are incredibly polite as long as they get what they want. -- Ben Fountain
It is not polite for a Russian to interfere in British politics. -- Alexander Lebedev

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