Quotes About Politeness

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous.

I really think the more talent people have, the more polite they are: Laurence Olivier and Alec Guinness always arrived on time and were impeccably behaved. It's only the gutter snipes who leave their lipstick on the studio floor - and that's just the men.

In polite society one laughs at all the jokes, including the ones one has heard before.

I want my kids to be polite and respectful, stand on their own two feet.

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

It's important to be courteous; it has to be. I was raised very well by my parents, so it's about being polite and courteous.

Obviously I'm going to be polite, so nobody has anything to fear from me.

Being polite does not mean being mummified.

I'm not disrespectful, I try to be polite.

I don't want to be polite. I don't think campaigning is polite. That's a disingenuous effort.

In Japan, you have no idea what they are saying, and they can't help you either. Nothing makes any sense. They're very polite, but you feel like a joke is being played on you the entire time you're there.

I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people.

I'm big on my kids being conventionally polite, and it works really well for them.

When telemarketers call me now, I won't get the blow-horn. I'm more polite than the average person.

When we talk to somebody and we want to be nice or polite or show our more beautiful side, we try to use the best words that we know. This is what poets are doing. They are cleaning the words, they are inventing the sentiments, they are giving us a way to communicate.

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.

I've had so many experiences where everyone is very polite about each other's working process, which can lead to work where everyone seems to be in different plays.

Be aware of who in your life is actually interested in hearing you discuss your writing, and who's just asking to be polite. Listening to writers talk about their work is often excruciatingly dull.

I am definitely not as polite as Beatrice, I have to say. I tell it as it is. I am shyer at first.

There's something very polite about the British accents. It's sort of sanitizing.

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.

The last thing I want to do is get togged up, go out and be polite.

If somebody is mean or rude, I just, I don't engage - just block and say, 'Well, that's not very polite.'