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?
Charles Dance
A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.
Bryant H. McGill
Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
Ambrose Bierce
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
Robert A. Heinlein
And opposite the bench, the dock, divided by a partition, with the women to the left and the men to the right, as it is on the stairs or the block in polite society.
Henry Lawson
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
Balanced is probably what I am, although that's just a polite way to say that you don't do anything very well.
Steve Yzerman
Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
Thomas Jefferson
Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
Otto von Bismarck
Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods that go beyond polite conversation.
John Yoo
Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children.
Susan George
Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.
Christine Keeler
Especially these days where everything is so polite and so proper, I think that rites of passage are good.
Emile Hirsch
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
Sinclair Lewis
Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I am the common man. I'm polite, I love my family and I play by the rules. And sometimes I get pushed around. That's my lifestyle, and that's what I try to bring to characters.
Eugene Levy
I don't write polite letters. I don't like to plea-bargain. I like to fight.
Roy Cohn
I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.
Jessica Hagedorn
I'm okay. Nobody's bothering me. Everyone's very kind, and very polite. I don't feel like my whole life changed.
Berenice Bejo
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.
Bill Murray
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