Top 160 Polite Quotes

Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?

I was an overly young father, is the most polite way of putting it. I think I was rather immature and all I can say is that I think I’ve made a much better grandfather… I don’t think I was ready to be a father to be honest.

My mom always taught me to be sweet and polite and cross my legs because it’s what the guys like. Actually, they like a raunchy girl once in a while.

I don’t think it is very polite and respectful asking someone out during an interview.

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

I didn’t know what to expect of real America. What shocked me was the diversity of it and how different every city is. But also just how polite and usually good-willed and optimistic most Americans are.

I took classes taught by an elderly woman who wrote children’s stories. She was polite about the science fiction and fantasy that I kept handing in, but she finally asked in exasperation, ‘Can’t you write anything normal?’

Years ago, I was performing, and people kept calling out for ‘Puppy Love’ and I just didn’t want to. Then I thought I’d have some fun, so we did this insane heavy metal version of it. The applause was polite.

It doesn’t matter how much polite self-deprecating fluff you have on the outside if you don’t have a steely something in the middle that says, ‘You know what, I’m actually really, really good at this, and this is what I can do, and I’m going to do it.’

I think that Canadians have an incredible reverence for authority and regard for authority, and I think one of the healthy ways that it’s challenged is through questioning it, through the polite hostility of comedy.

Acting on the theory that sometimes luck is better than work, I randomly called several people named Dattilo in Kentucky. All were unfailingly polite, and none knew anything about a major with their last name who died in World War II. I also discovered that more Dattilos lived in Kentucky than I would have imagined.

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

A lot of Wynonna is what I wish I could be. I don’t like confrontation. I’m pretty polite. But I think she’s the side of me that, if I could be free, that’s who I’d be.

I was anathema in polite society after I made ‘Last House.’ People literally would grab their children and run from the room.

I’ve never been afraid to make a polite ask to someone.

No language is rude that can boast polite writers.

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

I like to see things. I see a lot more art than I’d like to see. We have to be polite and see the art shows of people we know. We see a lot of art.

I’ve had so many experiences where everyone is very polite about each other’s working process, which can lead to work where everyone seems to be in different plays.

I do get stopped in the street, and people are always, without exception, really polite. I think it’s because they think I can send them to prison.

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

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

Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at Pearl Harbor’s officers’ mess and are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945.

All that is known for sure is that endometriosis is endemic and that it cannot be cured. Management is the best hope. This makes for treatments that are, if I am being polite, based on trial and error. If I am feeling less generous, they are shots in the dark.

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

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?

There’s this whole feeling that women should be small and quiet and polite, and I don’t think that’s really gotten us anywhere.

Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.

I would say L.A. is more polite than London – it’s a very careful place. People talk a lot in code.

Evangelicals have, for decades, believed that the country was more conservative than not, more Christian than not. The bipartisanship on religious liberty and the civic faith of the country was conducive to that. Now they’ve woken up to a reality in the Obama years that this was a polite fiction.

In real life, I’m polite and nice all the time. It’s fun to play people who aren’t. It’s escapism.

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

When telemarketers call me now, I won’t get the blow-horn. I’m more polite than the average person.

You know, sometimes, when they say you’re ahead of your time, it’s just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing.

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.

Agreeable people are warm and friendly. They’re nice; they’re polite. You find a lot of them in Canada.

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.

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

People in France are very intrusive when they recognize you. In New York, they are very polite, with quick words, so it’s great.

Seattle is a liberal city, its politics not so much blue (in the American, not the British, sense) as deep ultramarine, and its manners are studiously polite.

So I was thinking I go to America. I think that would work, conquering America. Because they’re so upbeat and positive and polite.

Even if you can’t afford to travel the world, you can take your children to the museum, zoo or local park. And don’t be afraid to take them to grown-up spots. Eating out in a restaurant teaches children how to be quiet and polite and gives them the pleasure of knowing you trust them to behave.

Having the urge to write a novel, especially if you’ve yet to be published, is like having a medical condition impossible to mention in polite company – it’s a relief simply to know there are fellow-sufferers out there.

Say ‘Toronto’ or ‘Ontario,’ and the immediate thought associations are with a somewhat blander version of North America: a United States with a welfare regime and a more polite street etiquette, and the additionally reassuring visage of Queen Elizabeth on the currency.

I have to audition for everything; there is no Mrs. Robbie Williams free pass, and because I’m working with British actors everyone is so polite – no one mentions Robbie.

To work with someone you love is something special, an incredible experience. But it could be a negative. You have to make a strong commitment to be honest; you’re not just being polite, like strangers on an airplane; you’re working.

In the South, we assume that one will have substance, be polite, be kind, be nice, but that person also needs to present himself/herself to the world with an individual unique well-developed style that identifies them as special.

There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.

I think a theater show is a pure version of me doing my material. The theater crowd is a bit more polite, there really aren’t hecklers, and there are a lot of people there to see me, and they’re excited about the jokes and hanging out with me for a show.

When you’re 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.

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.

As long as those adjectives used to describe me – charming, affable, punctual – don’t mean that I’m dull, then that’s fine. And I am polite – I was brought up to be that way.

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

As a person, I’m polite – I want to please.

Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.

I’ve had my successes and failures. I know many academics in my field loathe me. I’ve come to loathe them back, as it seems only polite to do so. But at heart it’s absurd; we should band together against the big common enemies.

There’s something very polite about the British accents. It’s sort of sanitizing.