Polite Quotes - Page 15

• Making an effort is polite, and getting ready and looking after yourself makes an event more fun.

  Jude Law

  Fun, Effort, Events

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• It’s considered perfectly normal in this society to approach dying people who you don’t know but who are unbelievers and say, ‘Now are you gonna change your mind?’ That is considered almost a polite question.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Perfectly Normal, People, Mind

  "Christopher Hitchens: the top 10 quotes from the author, journalist and atheist", www.mirror.co.uk. December 16, 2011.

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• I love polite people, late September, weeping mortar, and my fantastic fands (fans/friends)

  Matthew Gray Gubler

  People, Fans, September

  Twitter post from Sep 02, 2010

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• Contrary to popular opinion, Christians are not nice polite people who never get angry with one another. Those are not the virtues of God's people. Our virtues are truth-telling, kindness, forgiveness and yes, even anger-as long as it is the anger that is part of true love-through which we move closer to one another and to the God who has shown us how it is done.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Christian, Kindness, Nice

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• My view is that homosexual acts, not homosexuality, but homosexual acts are wrong. They’re intrinsically wrong. And I think in a natural law based country it’s appropriate to have policies that reflect that They don’t comport with natural law. I happen to think that it represents (to put it politely; I need my thesaurus to be polite) behavior that is not healthy to an individual and in aggregate is not healthy to society.

  Ken Cuccinelli

  Country, Thinking, Views

  "Steve Shannon for attorney general", pilotonline.com. October 26, 2009.

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• A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. - Second Amendment to the Constitution An armed society is a polite society.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Gun, Libertarian Party, Assault Weapons

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• We are being at once wisely aware of our own frivolity if we avoid hitting and whacking and prefer 'striking' and 'smiting'; talk and chat and prefer 'speech' and 'discourse'; well-bred, brilliant, or polite noblemen (visions of snobbery columns in the Press, and fat men on the Riviera) and prefer the 'worthy, brave and courteous men' of long ago.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Men, Long Ago, Brave

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• It annoys me how pretty my voice is...that sounds incredibly immodest, but it annoys me how polite it can sound when perhaps what I'm singing is deeply acidic.

  Thom Yorke

  Voice, Singing, Sound

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• The Irish are hearty, the Scotch plausible, the French polite, the Germans good-natured, the Italians courtly, the Spaniards reserved and decorous - the English alone seem to exist in taking and giving offense.

  William Hazlitt

  Country, Scotch, Giving

  William Hazlitt, James Thornton (1967). “Miscellaneous writings”

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• The Japanese are, to the highest degree, both aggressive and unaggressive, both militaristic and aesthetic, both insolent and polite, rigid and adaptable, submissive and resentful of being pushed around, loyal and treacherous, brave and timid, conservative and hospitable to new ways.

  Ruth Benedict

  Brave, Degrees, Loyal

  Ruth Benedict (1967). “The chrysanthemum and the sword: patterns of Japanese culture”

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• The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Time, Busy, Folks

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• Humility in this business [acting] isn't just a matter of being polite, it's kind of a matter of survival. You can't ever afford to think that you're the bee's knees, because you could always afford to be better. You have to always be searching for something better.

  Michael Shannon

  Humility, Thinking, Survival

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• To act in a way both sexist and racist, to maintain one's class privilege, it is only necessary to act in the customary, ordinary, usual, even polite manner.

  Joanna Russ

  Class, Usual, Ordinary

  Joanna Russ (1983). “How to Suppress Women's Writing”, p.18, University of Texas Press

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• 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.

  Ashley Madekwe

  Hate, People, Guy

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

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• Some people did not like this ceremonious style. But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Men, Japan

  "The Second World War, Volume III : The Grand Alliance". Book by Winston S. Churchill, chapter 32, 1950.

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• Marriage isn't a contest to see who is most often right. Marriage requires being what the Japanese call 'the wise bamboo,' which means you bend so you don't break. Treat your spouse with the flexibility and respect you would give to a top client. Think how we treat clients; We smile, we are polite, we listen to their ideas. Never forget that your spouse is your most important client.

  Joan Rivers

  Wise, Mean, Thinking

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• The most exquisite words and finest strokes of an author are those which very often appear the most doubtful and exceptionable to a man who wants a relish for polite learning; and they are those which a sour undistinguishing critic generally attacks with the greatest violence.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Want, Violence

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1852). “The Spectator”, p.331

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• The audience was swell. They were so polite they covered their mouths when they yawned.

  Bob Hope

  Mouths, Audience, Covered

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• The polite of every country seem to have but one character. A gentleman of Sweden differs but little, except in trifles, from one of any other country. It is among the vulgar we are to find those distinctions which characterize a people.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Country, Character, People

  Oliver Goldsmith (1834). “An inquiry into the present state of polite learning. The Bee. History of Cyrillo Padovano. Life of Dr. Parnell. Life of Lord Bolingbroke. Prefaces and introductions”, p.77

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• Poetry is an act of distillation. It takes contingency samples, is selective. It telescopes time. It focuses what most often floods past us in a polite blur.

  Diane Ackerman

  Past, Poetry, Telescopes

  Diane Ackerman (1999). “Deep Play”, Random House Incorporated

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• The whole country wants civility. Why don't we have it? It doesn't cost anything. No federal funding, no legislation is involved. One answer is the unwillingness to restrain oneself. Everybody wants other people to be polite to them, but they want the freedom of not having to be polite to others.

  Judith Martin

  Country, Freedom, Equality

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• When politeness is used to show up other people, it is reclassified as rudeness. Thus it is technically impossible to be too polite.

  Judith Martin

  People, Impossible, Rudeness

  Judith Martin (1996). “Miss Manners Rescues Civilization: From Sexual Harassment, Frivolous Lawsuits, Dissing, and Other Lapses in Civility”, Crown

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• Presumably a movement is more polite than a revolution, and a lot slower.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Movement, Revolution

  Linda Ellerbee (1993). “Move On”

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• But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the 19th century, but frowned upon in polite society.]

  Jane Austen

  England, Gothic, Century

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• There are people who balk at small civilities on account of their manifest insincerity. ... It is better and more logical to accept all the polite phraseology which facilitates intercourse, and contributes to the sweetness of life. If we discarded the formal falsehoods which are the currency of conversation, we should not be one step nearer the vital things of truth.

  Agnes Repplier

  Sweetness Of Life, People, Steps

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