Polite Quotes - Page 12

• What are sisters for if not to point out the things the rest of the world is too polite to mention.

  Claire Cook

  Sister, World, Ifs

  Claire Cook (2014). “Must Love Dogs: New Leash on Life”, p.188, Marshbury Beach Books

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• How long is it polite to continue to be interested in what someone says after they reveal they've got a boyfriend?

  Russell Brand

  Funny, Long, Comedy

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• 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

  Pain, Law, Definitions

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• In the 2012 election, Obamacare, as it's called, and I'll be more polite - the ACA ...was a major issue in the campaign. I campaigned all over America for two months, everywhere I could. And in every single campaign rally I said, 'We have to repeal and replace Obamacare.' Well, the people spoke. They spoke, much to my dismay, but they spoke. And they reelected the President of the United States.

  John McCain

  Leadership, Party, Health

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• Because Cards' fans are the most knowledgeable and loyal in all of baseball, they booed almost reluctantly, polite as booing goes, what would have passes as a standing ovation in Philly.

  Buzz Bissinger

  Baseball, Fans, Ovation

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

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Fans, Seems

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Emily Post says that talking about oneself isn't very polite.' 'I'm sure Miss Post is perfectly correct, but that doesn't seem to stop the rest of us.

  Amor Towles

  Talking, Missing, Posts

  Amor Towles (2011). “Rules of Civility”, p.34, Hachette UK

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• There is no polite way to suggest to someone that they have devoted their life to a folly.

  Daniel Dennett

  Way, Folly, Theist

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• We must stop being polite and behaved and find new inventive tactics to shift the paradigm. We are the majority.

  Eve Ensler

  Majority, Tactics, Paradigm

  "One Billion Rising" by Eve Ensler, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 14, 2012.

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• There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.

  Daniel Dennett

  People, Way, Illusion

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• The secret of a happy marriage is simple: Just keep on being as polite to one another as you are to your friends.

  Robert Quillen

  Simple, Secret, Happy Marriage

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• No one who is at all acquainted with the Indian in his home can deny that we are a polite people.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Home, Ethos, People

  Charles Alexander Eastman (2003). “The Soul of the Indian”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• A modest ring at the bell at length allayed her fears, and Miss Benton, hurrying into her own room and shutting herself up, in order that she might preserve that appearance of being taken by surprise which is so essential to the polite reception of visitors, awaited their coming with a smiling countenance.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Taken

  CHARLES DICKENS (1871). “THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD, MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK, AND SKETCHES BY "BOZ".”, p.218

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• As a person, I'm polite - I want to please.

  Karl Ove Knausgard

  Want, Please, Persons

  "Karl Ove Knausgaard: 'I have given away my soul'". Interview With Jon Henley, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2012.

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• Americans are incredibly polite as long as they get what they want.

  Ben Fountain

  Long, Want

  Ben Fountain (2012). “Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk”, p.36, Canongate Books

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• The hundred-point man is one who is true to every trust; who keeps his word; who is loyal to the firm that employs him; who does not listen for insults nor look for slights; who carries a civil tongue in his head; who is polite to strangers without being fresh; who is considerate toward servants; who is moderate in his eating and drinking; who is willing to learn; who is cautious and yet courageous.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Trust, Drinking, Men

  Elbert Hubbard (1908). “Health & Wealth”

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• It's still so rare for anyone to be personally acknowledged by a brand that the impact of such a simple, polite gesture on a customer's buying habits could be huge.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Simple, Impact, Gestures

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• 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.

  Jonathan Raban

  Blue, Cities, Manners

  Jonathan Raban (2017). “Driving Home: An American Scrapbook”, p.378, Pan Macmillan

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• We pretend that no one's a racist anymore, but it's easier to talk about pornography in polite company than racial integration

  Bob Herbert

  Racist, Easier, Integration

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• Even the street, the sunshine, the very air had a special Sunday quality. We walked differently on Sundays, with greater propriety and stateliness. Greetings were more formal, more subdued, voices more meticulously polite. Everything was so smooth, bland, polished. And genuinely so, because this was Sunday. In church the rustling and the stillness were alike pervaded with the knowledge that all was for the best. Propriety ruled the universe. God was in His Heaven, and we were in our Sunday clothes.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Sunshine, Sunday, Air

  "Old Home Town". Book by Rose Wilder Lane, 1935.

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• Make me, dear Lord, polite and kind,
  To everyone, I pray.
  And may I ask you how you find
  Yourself, dear Lord, today?

  John B

  Dear Lord, Finding Yourself, Today

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• Ah, the truth, what a thing it is! I sacrifice so much for it, with people: I forego, for truth's sake, discretion, loyalty, diplomacy, tact, polite manners, elegance, grace, poise, balance, good taste, conformity, image-role, fashionableness, polish, confidences, promises, ambition, consistency, identity, clarity, comprehensibleness, good will, hypocrisy, and lots of other things--amass sacrifice, at truth's altar. God! is truth worth it? I hope it is. It better be, in fact.

  Marvin L. Cohen

  Loyalty, Truth, Ambition

  "Fables at Life's Expense". Book by Marvin Cohen, 1975.

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• Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet.

  Thelma Ritter

  Killing, Rear Window

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• Glasgow is less polite than Edinburgh but that's a good thing - they keep it very real.

  Nik Kershaw

  Real, Edinburgh, Good Things

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• My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous. So when we got on a bus, he would always encourage me and my younger brother to get up and offer our seat to an old lady. I grew up kind of liking that, thinking, y'know, that's a nice thing, that's a courtesy.

  Paul McCartney

  Brother, Dad, Nice

  Source: www.avclub.com

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