Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

Be polite write diplomatically even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

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

The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.

It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience decency politeness and courtesy.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it's third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries now it has changed to developing countries it's much more polite.

My mom always taught me to be sweet and polite and cross my legs because it's what the guys like. Actually they like a raunchy girl once in a while.

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

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Swedes are such a civilised perfect society - at least on the surface. There's a great safety net a huge middle class free education free health care. People are very polite they wait their turn. They're not too loud they're not too quiet but sometimes it's a little too perfect.

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.

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

Polite conversation is rarely either.

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.

When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying as politely as possible that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.

I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.

Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?

Men of polite learning and a liberal education.

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

I've had fans come and knock on my door. I'm usually polite but I'm usually very direct and say 'It's not cool that you come here uninvited.'

Polite and velvety leaders who take care to avoid bruising others are generally not as effective at forcing change.

A car to pick me up every day a chair with my name on it everybody being very polite... what can you do except sit back and watch it all try to take it all in?

Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.