Quotes About Politeness

Welcome to my humble abode," he said. He offered her a drink. She passed. He had laid out finger sandwiches. Wendy took one just to be polite. The finger sandwich was awful enough to make her wonder whether the moniker was also an ingredient list. Cherston was already jabbering on about his classmates. "We

Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in.

One time I asked her to have a chew and she said no thanks, that - chewing gum cleaved to her palate and rendered her speechless, said Jem carefully. Doesn't that sound nice?

Do you itch, Jem?" I asked as politely as I could. He did not answer. "Come on in, Jem," I said. "After while.

Atticus said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in. Mr. Cunningham displayed no interest in his son, so I tackled his entailment once more in a last-ditch effort to make him feel at home.

Through the weeks he had cultivated an expression of polite and detached interest, which he would present to her in answer to her most blood-curdling inventions.

Some people are polite, and some are quick. Each one's a good quality to have, but most of the time quickness trumps politeness.

I turned to run, but I didn't actually take a step, even though I wanted to. That wasn't the way I was raised. My mother taught me that if you knock on a door, you have to wait there until someone answers.

I don't want to overestimate myself. Basically I've been lucky. I'm simply a polite, lucky man. That might be the best way to think of it.

Sometimes I rub people the wrong way, although I'm very polite.

You don't say hello to Mr. DeNiro? Show the respect, will ya?

There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does, it's just one of those polite things where you don't question their belief in ghosts. You just go, 'Oh, yeah, okay.' It's amazing to be able to have conversations like that.

My family trained me to be polite to people I had just met, and that included strangers. You speak when you're spoken to. You look people in the eye when they address you and when you address them back.

They understood that the Second Amendment is not so much about guns as it is about accountability, and politeness, and the basic freedom of self defense. People who live around dirt are very simple folk and they look at the world through simple eyes, untainted by political correctness or liberal ideology. And because they live around dirt, they remain close to their roots, and the simple things that city people don't understand are just plain common sense to them.

George looked doubtful, as he frequently did. English discretion, Poirot had observed, had an outward appearance that suggested doubt. Many of the politest English men and women he had met over the years looked as if they had been ordered to disbelieve everything that was said to them.

Ironic. I'm here because of my inherent dangerousness, but it's my inherent politeness that makes me put up with this. With him.

Mrs Poste, who had wished people to live beautiful lives and yet be ladies and gentlemen.

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

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And how shall you pay, gentlemen?" enquired Elric politely, still smiling.

Serwde only half understood what Corum was saying, but he listened politely until Corum stopped

All actors are my brothers and my sisters. It ain't cool to compare or disparage them. It ain't polite.

People enjoy sitting back knowing they won't hear a lot of four-letter words.

Be able to hiccup silently, or at least without alerting neighbors to your situation. The first hiccup is an exception.