Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.
I’m not interested in being polite. It’s false.
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused.
For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don't want to be.
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
But I don't want to be fine, not if it means she's going to let go of my hand; not if it means we're going to go back to being polite strangers.
Shane settled his flamethrower more comfortably on his shoulders. “Ladies? After you.” “Rude,” Claire said. “I was being polite!” “Not when you have a flamethrower.
Why haven’t you asked me how I do my tricks?” Celia asks, once they have reached the point where she is certain he is not simply being polite about the matter. “Because I do not wish to know,” he says. “I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better remain in the dark.
I don’t bite Marcus. You can come sit on the comfy old couch with me. That chair is incredibly uncomfortable.” Just the opening I needed. I jumped up and sat down on the end of the couch and stretched my legs out in front of me. “You don’t have to tell me twice. I was just being polite.” Will ow chuckled and brought a blanket over to the sofa with her.
Next year, Equality Now will celebrate - if that’s the word - will clock its twentieth year. Two decades of fighting the good fight, fighting the cause, and in case I haven’t been the clear, the cause is that one half of the human race is given the same basic equal rights that the other half enjoys. Or, not given. Given back. That is not a milestone, twenty years, that I intend to go unnoticed. I want to make some noise. I want to make a joyful noise, I want to make too much noise. I want the neighbors to complain. I’m tired of being polite about something that matters so much.
Being polite is not only the right way to respond to people but also the easiest. Life is so filled with unavoidable conflict that I see no reason to promote more confrontations.
I know, I say, after he says, This is hard, for the third time. This is what happens when you have a TRM, I tell him. You make a mess. It's okay. You just have to try harder next time. I am trying hard, Dad says. I know. You get a sticker. Thank you. Okay. You get another sticker for being polite.
You don't feel honest on a date, I guess. You don't really get to learn about anyone. You're kind of being polite and you can ask the questions, it's just not a great time for me.
Normally when people say they haven't decided, they're being polite but they're definitely not voting for you. I think it's different this time. People are thinking hard about the issues.
I wish my nose was smaller and that I was a little taller. I also had this perennial pimple problem, so I felt people were just being polite when they said I was beautiful.
The important thing was that we were being polite and not saying all the things that were making us unhappy, which was the only way we knew how to love each other.
We must stop being polite and behaved and find new inventive tactics to shift the paradigm. We are the majority.
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