A Polite Society Quotes

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

Robert A. Heinlein

#2. It confirms my idea that you also need more liberal gun laws. Guns lead to a polite society, as we like to say in the United States. And I think that all of western Canada would agree with me.

Ann Coulter

#3. Foreigners who think of Japan as a polite society have never ridden the Yamanote at rush hour. The

Barry Eisler

#4. In polite society what you say to an attractive woman who is dressed in a way that makes you understand the power of biology is, "You look nice.

Joe R. Lansdale

#5. Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not be polite to show one's wit.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#6. No one was quite sure how to treat this mourning that wasn't for a death.

M.L. Stedman

#7. Hence one meets in polite society few novelists, or poets, few of all those sublime creatures who speak of the things that are not to be mentioned.

Marcel Proust

#8. Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects.

Stephen King

#9. But Engels and Dickens suggested a new twist: that the advance of civilization produced barbarity as an unavoidable waste product, as essential to its metabolism as the gleaming spires and cultivated thought of polite society. The barbarians weren't storming the gates.

Steven Johnson

#10. Though she would never admit it to polite Society, Lady Georgette Thorold hated brandy almost as much as she hated husbands. So it was the cruelest of jokes when she awoke with nary a clue to her surroundings, smelling like one and pressed up against the other.

Jennifer McQuiston

#11. I wonder if it changes the nature of a society for beauty to be so common. Maybe in Vietnam "She has a wonderful personality" really means something. But I couldnt figure out a polite way to ask.

P. J. O'Rourke

#12. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered.

Stephen King

#13. Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.

Ted Koppel

#14. 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.

Alexander Skarsgard

#15. But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the 19th century, but frowned upon in polite society.]

Jane Austen

#16. Everybody has multiple personalities - at least three. We're one person at work, another person in private, and a third person when we appear in polite society.

Johan Fundin

#17. My fragile connection with the world of polite society has, without a doubt, been severed.

John McAfee

#18. In England, art was much less likely to be mentioned in polite society than sexual perversions or methods of torture.

Edward St. Aubyn

#19. In the society of would-be-gods, a humble man is always polite.

Greg Bear

#20. You need people in a society to have reached a certain standard of living before they can be polite. You learn how to respect others because you don't have to fight as much, you have what you need.

Cristian Mungiu

#21. That quality is what makes women great collaborators; we understand it's a team effort. Even if it comes from society telling us to be polite.

Rachel Bloom

#22. I could write an epic poem about your thighs."
"That would amuse polite society rather too much, and I wouldn't like that."
"I wouldn't either." She pressed her cheek to his belly. "I can't think of a word to rhyme with marble column.

Christina Dodd

#23. If you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway.

Stephen King

#24. Jazz was formerly a crude term for indulging in an action which in polite society is referred to, if at all, only with such vague Latin terms as intercourse and cohabitation.

Charlton Laird

#25. It is well established among us that you may hold up your head in polite society with a public lie in your mouth or other people's money in your pocket or innocent blood on your hands, but not with dishwater on your hands or mud on your shoes.

Wendell Berry

#26. Ezekiel and his fellow prophets have become my heroes. They were fearless. They literalized metaphors. They turned their lives into protest pieces. They proved that, in the name of truth, sometimes you can't be afraid to take a left turn from polite society and look absurd.

A. J. Jacobs

#27. And opposite the bench, the dock, divided by a partition, with the women to the left and the men to the right, as it is on the stairs or the block in polite society.

Henry Lawson

#28. You don't seem the type to endorse the obscure dictates of polite society," she noted, thinking that he only played at being a gentlemen. There was something rather rebellious about him.

Elizabeth Cole