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• The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.

  Malcolm Bradbury

  Lying, Deceit, Telling The Truth

  Malcolm Bradbury (2012). “Stepping Westward”, p.172, Pan Macmillan

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• So, to say Obama is progress is saying that he’s the first black person that is qualified to be president. That’s not black progress. That’s white progress. There’s been black people qualified to be president for hundreds of years. The question is, you know, my kids are smart, educated, beautiful, polite children. There have been smart, educated, beautiful, polite black children for hundreds of years. The advantage that my children have is that my children are encountering the nicest white people that America has ever produced. Let’s hope America keeps producing nicer white people.

  Chris Rock

  Beautiful, Children, Smart

  Interview with Frank Rich, www.vulture.com. November 30, 2014.

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• No use to preach to the working-man courtesy & politeness when at the same time the working-man is not given working conditions under which he can stay polite and soft-mannered.

  B. Traven

  Men, Use, Working Conditions

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• It was not polite for a Temujai general to allow his emotions to show.

  John Flanagan

  Emotion, Shows

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• Los Angeles made me less interested in making my images move. Everything is evolving and regressing. It can be hard to pinpoint which changes are linked to place. I believe California has made me more polite. I get a little surprised when I rediscover how direct and rude Norwegians can be.

  Torbjørn Rødland

  Believe, Moving, Rude

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• I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.

  Jessica Hagedorn

  Underdog, Valuable, Persons

  Interview with Kay Bonetti, www.english.illinois.edu.

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• Chandresh relishes reactions. Genuine reactions, not mere polite applause. He often values the reactions over the show itself. A show without an audience is nothing, after all. In the response of the audience, that is where the power of performance lives.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Reactions, Applause, Genuine

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• Beside him a tiny elderly woman was leaning on a cane, studying him with curiosity. Since good manners seemed to require that he speak to her, Jon cast about for some sort of polite conversation pertinent to the occasion. “I hate funerals, don’t you?” He said. “I rather like them,” she said smugly. “At my age, I regard each funeral I attend as a personal triumph, because I was not the guest of honor.

  Judith McNaught

  Hate, Elderly, Funeral

  Judith McNaught (2003). “Paradise”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• 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?

  Adriana Lima

  Girl, Men, Coats

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• What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle.

  Stephen King

  Smart, Mean, People

  FaceBook post by Stephen King from Jan 15, 2014

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• You rang, Mino- well, you’re not really the Minor Master anymore, are you? What should I call you? (Asmodeus) Think of a polite term, demon. (Jericho) Mister Master it is. What can I do for you? (Asmodeus)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Thinking, Asmodeus, Demon

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• Democracy isn't solely about polite conversations in parliaments. It needs to be continually refreshed with raw passions, anger and ideals.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Passion, Democracy, Needs

  Geoff Mulgan (2006). “Good and Bad Power: The Ideals and Betrayals of Government”

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• Lyall had spent centuries nibbling about the great layered cake that was polite society while Lord Akeldama acted the part of the frosting on its top.

  Gail Carriger

  Cake, Nibbling, Lord

  Gail Carriger (2010). “Blameless: Book 3 of The Parasol Protectorate”, p.166, Hachette UK

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• Most people, when they imagine New England, think about old colonial homes, white houses with black shutters, whales, and sexually morbid WASPs with sensible vehicles and polite political opinions. This is incorrect. If you want to get New England right, just imagine a giant mullet in paint-stained pants and a Red Sox hat being pushed into the back of a cruiser after a bar fight.

  Matt Taibbi

  Home, Fighting, Thinking

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• Liz, you must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Inspirational, Learning Something New, Liz

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.59, A&C Black

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• What have you done to my cat?" Magnus demanded... "You drank his blood, didn't you? You said you weren't hungry!" Simon was indignant. "I did not drink his blood. He's fine!" He poked the Chairman in the stomach. The cat yawned. "Second, you asked me if I was hungry when you were ordering pizza, so I said no, because I can't eat pizza. I was being polite." "That doesn't get you the right to eat my cat." "Your cat is fine!" Simon reached to pick up the tabby, who jumped indignantly to his feet and stalked off the table. "See?" "Whatever.

  Cassandra Clare

  Cat, Feet, Blood

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• Are you out of your mind?" It's not polite to lie to your best friend. "It's a possibility.

  Ilona Andrews

  Lying, Mind, Your Best Friend

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.125, Penguin

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• Me and polite have never been on close terms.

  Jim Butcher

  Term

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Side Jobs: Stories from the Dresden Files”, p.97, Penguin

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• This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Selfish, Nice, Reading

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• A lot of people ask me, 'How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?' It's because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they're gonna say no to you, at least they're gonna be polite about it.

  Taylor Swift

  School, People, Rejection

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• I'm being ironic. Don't interrupt a man in the midst of being ironic, it's not polite. There!

  Ray Bradbury

  Men, Ironic, Midst

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “The Martian Chronicles”, p.154, Simon and Schuster

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• She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too civil to say so, our letters are still as frequent and affectionate as ever, and our Attachment as firm and sincere as when it first commenced.

  Jane Austen

  Tired, Attachment, Letters

  Jane Austen (2016). “Sanditon, Lady Susan, & The History of England: The Juvenilia and Shorter Works of Jane Austen”, p.99, Pan Macmillan

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• Liz cleared her throat. "Isn't there a more polite term we're supposed to use nowadays? Like....little person, or vertically challenged,or-" "I'm not going to call myself the god of vertically challenged people," Bes grumbled. "I'm a dwarf!

  Rick Riordan

  Dwarves, People, Liz

  Rick Riordan (2013). “The Kane Chronicles: The Complete Series”, p.477, Penguin UK

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• It is not very polite to interrupt a person, of course, but sometimes if the person is very unpleasant you can hardly stop yourself.

  Daniel Handler

  Sometimes, Persons, Courses

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• Normally it is not polite to go into somebody’s room without knocking, but you can make an exception if the person is dead, or pretending to be dead.

  Daniel Handler

  Rooms, Pretending, Knocking

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