The whole of Cornwall has become antiseptic. When I was growing up in St. Austell, the county was wonderfully rough and workish. These days it is polite and Disney-fied.
I’m very Asian, and also my mom raised me to be polite and to eat whatever is put in front of me. I actually enjoy snails a lot. And I’ve eaten sea urchin and that shebang.
‘Targeting’ is polite ads-speak for the data levers that Facebook exposes to advertisers, allowing that predatory lot to dissect the user base – that would be you – like a biology lab frog, drawing and quartering it into various components, and seeing which clicked most on its ads.
Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another’s resemblance to ourselves.
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.
‘Almost’ can be a polite way of saying something definitely. It withholds the obvious and dangles it just long enough.
There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don’t accept it and you’re having a conversation with someone who does, it’s just one of those polite things where you don’t question their belief in ghosts. You just go, ‘Oh, yeah, okay.’ It’s amazing to be able to have conversations like that.
I think my father gave me a great reverence for medical science. He was about as opposite to the personality of House as one could imagine. He was polite and easygoing, and would have gone to great lengths to make his patients feel attended to and heard and sympathized with.
All fame is is having people you don’t know coming up to you and saying, ‘Hello.’ I’m always polite and people are always nice, but it’s weird.
With the movies, people are not going to wait around. The deadline is a deadline. In publishing it’s more a polite suggestion.
In Sweden everybody has this perfect surface. Everyone’s very polite and controls their feelings.
In all great epochs of history, the existence of standards – that is, the conscious adoption of type-forms – has been the criterion of a polite, well-ordered society; for it is a commonplace that repetition of the same things for the same purpose exercises a settling and civilizing influence on men’s minds.
People in Chicago are so cool! They are different; they’re friendly and just genuinely happy. Everyone’s so polite and sweet. They even look cool.
I always say that you can be polite and nice and still know what you want and still can see your path.
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.
The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
My momma will roast my friends all of the time. If you’re one of my friends, and you meet my mom for the first time, she will definitely roast you in a polite way. It’s just to test your bars.
What I see as specially English is the charm – everyone is so polite. Being restrained is part of the charm. And I love the sense of humour – it takes me back to Australia. The English are great at making fun of themselves. They’re so self-effacing.
The public discourse online is not done through the polite language of debate.
Democracy isn’t solely about polite conversations in parliaments. It needs to be continually refreshed with raw passions, anger and ideals.
Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.
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.
I would hope I was raised polite and charming.
I’m big on my kids being conventionally polite, and it works really well for them.
I am perfectly capable of writing things about myself that one doesn’t discuss in polite company, but I was raised by people who said you don’t discuss politics, you don’t discuss religion, and you certainly don’t discuss people’s sex lives.
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
There’s a personality trait known as agreeableness. Agreeable people are compassionate and polite. And agreeable people get paid less than disagreeable people for the same job. Women are more agreeable than men.
The last thing I want to do is get togged up, go out and be polite.
I know everywhere is cool and all, but, at least for me, I was lucky enough to be in southern California. I feel lucky to be from there… I feel like it taught me how to be polite.
Our secret desire as women is to have a guy who falls madly in love with us even though we’re incredibly opinionated or we’re not the sort of normal, polite, poised woman.
I always had that adolescent notion that I had to get out of Texas. But I’m really glad I grew up there. It’s where I learned to look people in the eye, to be straightforward and polite.
Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that GE has made such and such billions off the war in Iraq by selling arms or that Murdoch is a right-wing activist with a clear stake in who wins and who taxes his profits the least.
I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn’t stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.
The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did.
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.
I am done being polite. I am done being politically correct. I am mad as hell, so I am asking the members of the press to send a mayday call all over the world.
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.
In later life, we don’t easily talk of fears, but instead we discuss our ‘concerns.’ Fear seems too primal and hysterical, but concern is polite and intellectual and nicely under control.
Yes, well, on stage I’m a different person, very aggressive, very tense. That’s not me because I’m humble and polite, unless someone is rude to me.
Being polite does not mean being mummified.
I want my kids to be polite and respectful, stand on their own two feet.
I’m polite.
My family trained me to be polite to people I had just met, and that included strangers. You speak when you’re spoken to. You look people in the eye when they address you and when you address them back.
I’m an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.
There are two sides to me. One is the writer. That’s a savage person who looks at everything as a story and, you know, wants to use real life in his books. The other part is the Midwesterner, who, you know, wants to say nice things about people and be polite.
Tim Berners-Lee, the 44-year-old English physicist who created the World Wide Web, is precisely the kind of hero that a relatively simple invention with profound social and economic consequences should lay claim to. He is not just creative but democratic, diplomatic, polite and generous with credit and praise.
People are not as nice as they used to be. There used to be a time when we conversed. You don’t get a lot of real responses now. They used to be more polite and well-mannered people, generally. It’s minimal now.
I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people.
It’s so funny because when you’re working with an acquaintance or someone else, you’re being more polite. I find that I’m a little bit more of a brat when I’m in the studio with my dad, so I feel bad.
I’m okay. Nobody’s bothering me. Everyone’s very kind, and very polite. I don’t feel like my whole life changed.
Being politically correct means saying what’s polite rather than what’s accurate. I like to be accurate.
People think I’m not polite. But, what I have to say to people seems so unnecessary. I can’t be forced. I’d rather just be what I feel. Even when I sing I try to imagine I’m all alone, there’s nobody out there listening. I play with the notes, with the feeling. Each time the song is different for me.
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.
Men of polite learning and a liberal education.
I’m the weirdo that tells – asks – the Uber driver to please turn the radio down. I’m so polite about it, though.
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
It’s not polite to refuse to dress for a parly. It’s an insult to your hostess. After all, correct dress is a part of good manners.
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.
