Quotes About Polite

I think it's actually the more polite thing to do, because I'm not coercing partygoers into some big farewell moment with me. Then other people feel like they have to stop what they're doing and hug me, too. It's time-wasting dominoes.

Cruelty has a polite mask of hypocrisy. The more deceitful the person, the more polite his tone.

His manner somehow friendly and courtly at the same time.

You get a promotion?" "I got a polite, but firm suggestion to be a team player. [...]" "You got off easy. One of my commanding officers once threw a paperweight at me." "We're a bit more subtle.

It is generally a bad thing when someone hunting you is polite. It means they are sure they can take you anytime they want to.

Love thy enemies, it says in the scriptures. My foster mother always added, "At the very least, you will be polite to them.

There was a door, but it was terribly bashful, so Auri politely pretended not to see it.

It was, I thought idly, the most polite punch I'd ever seen. It was the careful blow of a skilled carpenter pounding a nail: hard enough to drive it fully home, but not so hard as to bruise the wood around it.

Elodin nodded. "It is a lovely name," he said politely. "And it suits you." "It does," she agreed. "It is like having a flower in my heart.

learned the sordid inner workings of the royal court in Modeg from a . . . courtesan. As my father used to say: "Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady. Their lives are hard enough, and it never hurts to be polite.

Most of the concert reviews in the next day's paper would describe the crowd milling about the Slumberland as "diverse" without saying what made them so. In polite democratic society it's important to note stratification but impolite to label the layers.