75 Politeness Quotes

If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest.

I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

People who ask 'Can I ask you a question?' Didn't really give me a choice, did you there, buddy?

I know an awful lot of Hollywood people, who are so self-important, I can't understand it. My father was a good Irish saloon-keeper, my mother always said to him, 'Jack, how come you know everybody here' and he'd say, 'because I say hello'. I'm just like that, I've always been that way.

Let us be very strange and well-bred: Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while; And as well-bred as if we were not married at all.

I am parshial to ladies if they are nice I suppose it is my nature. I am not quite a gentleman but you would hardly notice it but cant be helped anyhow.

I wouldn't have ate it, only I'm too lady-like to take it out of my mouth.

After all, there are worse things in life than death. If you've ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman, you know what I'm talking about.

'Thank you, thank you very much!'

Manners: 'A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.'

Thank you, Thank you very much.

As he comes along the drive from the house with Mrs Whitefield he is sedulously making himself agreeable and entertaining, and thereby placing on her slender wit a burden it is unable to bear.

Politeness does not interfere with facts, politeness is just another fact.

Minimum information given with maximum politeness.

I think you're all completely mad! -and thank you very much.

'We're having a celebration, so all sorts of things have been said which are not true,' I said. 'That's how to act at a party.'

Piss off, lout! (Spieprzaj, dziadu)

Have I reached the party to whom I am speaking?

And often took leave, but was loth to depart.

Lift latch, step in, be welcome, Sir, Albeit to see you I'm unglad.

How kind of them. I wish, and they deliver.

Jon Stewart: Thank you very much, it's a pleasure to be here tonight.

(In his usual dry, monotone voice) 'Thanks.'

Good-breeding, or true politeness, is the art of showing men by external signs the internal regard we have for them. It arises from good sense, improved by good company. It must be acquired by practice and not by books.

Herzen: Marx is a bourgeois from the anus up. Natalie : Alexander! I won't have that word... Herzen: Sorry, middle-class.

I am finding the inherent politeness of this place quite destabilising. Having come from a House where politeness is about as rare as an orderly queue at a London bus stop, the culture shock on entering your Lordships' House has been profound. Indeed, such relentless politeness is not merely destabilising, but positively exhausting.

'We here at World Wrestling Entertainment wish you the best in your future endeavors.'

I have met them at close of day Coming with vivid faces From counter or desk among grey Eighteenth-century houses. I have passed with a nod of the head Or polite meaningless words, Or have lingered awhile and said Polite meaningless words.

I am finding the inherent politeness of this place quite destabilising. Having come from a House where politeness is about as rare as an orderly queue at a London bus stop, the culture shock on entering your Lordships' House has been profound. Indeed, such relentless politeness is not merely destabilising, but positively exhausting.

I'm always cheerful and polite. But when it matters I say what I think - cheerfully and politely

Yeah, that's why my mama taught me to say yes sir and no ma'am and please and thank you. So I could show grateful courtesy to a lawyer who's helping somebody take away my independence

When people say to me 'Have a nice day', I reply 'Sorry, I've made other plans'.

After dinner at a friends house, Diana said, 'Do you have a pair of Marigolds?' I'll do the washing up. The host convinced her there was no need!

An armed society is a polite society.

Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often the very young, the untraveled, the naive, the unsophisticated deplore these formalities as 'empty,' 'meaningless,' or 'dishonest,' and scorn to use them. No matter how 'pure' their motives, they thereby throw sand into machinery that does not work too well at best.

Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.

Was Ashlee Simpson nice to me? Yes. She said 'hi' very clearly in a nice voice!

...That's just how I see male relationships. Just one pleasantry shy of a cock in the mouth.

Humanitarianim is rude.

Thank you.

Salutations