Top 100 Be Polite Quotes
#1. I was raised to be polite, but not to suffer bullshit.
Stephen King
#2. We are taught how to read, write, to be polite, cautious and respectful. But no one ever teaches us how to be happy. We have to learn that all on our own.
Nina Guilbeau
#3. If the notion on this is we're going to elect somebody to the United States Senate so they can be the 100th least senior person in there and be polite, and somewhere in their fourth or fifth year do some bipartisan bill that nobody cares about, don't vote for me.
Elizabeth Warren
#4. Try to be polite."
"I'm always polite."
"You're always eyeing people's valuables. That's hardly polite.
Jodi Meadows
#5. Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
Otto Von Bismarck
#6. It is unpredictable for you to know which of the strangers you are about to meet that becomes your friend. Be polite to every stranger!
Israelmore Ayivor
#7. 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.
Patrick Rothfuss
#8. There are two sides to me. One is the writer. That's a savage person who looks at everything as a story and, you know, wants to use real life in his books. The other part is the Midwesterner, who, you know, wants to say nice things about people and be polite.
Walter Kirn
#9. People in day-to-day life tend to skim the surface of things and be polite and careful, and that's not the language I speak. I like talking about feelings, fears and memories, anguish and joy, and I find it in music.
Shirley Manson
#10. We must recall the most important of humanity guidelines: Be polite. Being polite is possibly the greatest daily contribution everyone can make to life on Earth.
Caitlin Moran
#11. The thing about money is," said Ben, "you can't be polite to it. Leave something suspicious to say, and it'll say it ... Leave something greedy to say, and it'll say it ... Leave something scary to say, and it'll say it."
"Money Talks
Kurt Vonnegut
#12. It is better to be too honest to be polite than to be too polite to be honest!
Andre Comte-Sponville
#13. Love thy enemies, it says in the scriptures. My foster mother always added, At the very least, you will be polite to them.
Patricia Briggs
#14. Do what comes into your life and do it well ... Be polite without groveling. If you are ever afraid of anything, do not deny it, but behave as if you feared nothing.
Anna Lee
#15. Don't be polite.
Bite in.
Pick it up with your fingers and lick the juice that may run down your chin.
It is ready and ripe now, whenever you are.
You do not need a knife or fork or spoon.
For there is no core
or stem
or rind
or pit
or seed
or skin
to throw away.
Eve Merriam
#16. She was remembering what it was like when you broke up with someone. Conversations became so hopelessly tangled. You had to be polite and precise. You couldn't safely criticize anymore, because you didn't have the right. You'd lost your immunity.
Liane Moriarty
#17. 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
#19. I can't bring myself to move. Because as soon as I do, it will be time to be polite and matter-of-fact and back to normal. And I can't bear that. I want to stay here. In the place where we can say anything to each other. In the magic spell.
Sophie Kinsella
#20. 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.
Samuel R. Delany
#21. But he does insist on a conversation. Goddamn it! Why can't people just do what I want them to do and be gone? It's a worldwide conspiracy to make me be polite when I don't want to be.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#22. 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
#23. I was trying to be polite, I felt like the beast making an effort to be kind to the beauty. The only difference is that this beauty wouldn't find her handsome prince in the end.
Mercy Cortez
#24. I like to see things. I see a lot more art than I'd like to see. We have to be polite and see the art shows of people we know. We see a lot of art.
Peter Saul
#25. 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
#26. Be polite, being well-mannered doesn't mean you're boring.
Anuj Kr. Thakur
#27. Always be polite to possible murderers: that was the twenty-four-hour-shopping philosophy.
Kate Griffin
#28. Alas! it is true: "Be polite to bores and so shall you have bores always round about you."
Emily Post
#29. The whole country wants civility. Why don't we have it? It doesn't cost anything. No federal funding, no legislation is involved. One answer is the unwillingness to restrain oneself. Everybody wants other people to be polite to them, but they want the freedom of not having to be polite to others.
Judith Martin
#30. Elegance is like manners. You can't be polite only on Wednesday or Thursday. If you are elegant, you should be every day of the week. If you are not, then it's another matter.
Aldo Gucci
#31. Please be polite. Nothing in life should erode the habit of saying thank you to people or praising them.
Richard Branson
#32. It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility, is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire. For politeness is like a counter
an avowedly false coin, with which it is foolish to be stingy.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#33. Perhaps I shall meet with troubles and many disappointments, but I have made up my mind to be polite and sincere to everyone; more cannot be asked of me.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#34. I suspect that both astronomers were, yet again, bending over backwards to be polite: theologians have nothing worthwhile to say about anything else; let's throw them a sop and let them worry away at a couple of questions that nobody can answer and maybe never will.
Richard Dawkins
#35. Do what's right. Be on time, be polite, and be honest; remain free from drugs; and if you have any questions, get out your Bible. 2. Do your best. Mediocrity is unacceptable when you are capable of doing better. 3. Treat others as you want to be treated. Practice love and understanding.
Lou Holtz
#36. You're thinking too hard about how to respond to my stupidity. Have to be polite don't you?
Jodi Meadows
#37. She felt free now. Free and empty. No need to talk to anyone, or be polite, or bother about anything.
Joan G. Robinson
#38. When a book of mine comes out, I instantly go hunting the net, not for praise, but for criticism, because that's how you learn, from people who don't have to be polite to you.
J. Michael Straczynski
#39. Someone's at the gate," Kit says as he pours another swirl of batter onto the hot skillet. "Ciere, if it's your mob friends, please invite them in for coffee. Just because they're blackmailing you doesn't mean you shouldn't be polite.
Emily Lloyd-Jones
#40. Ninety percent of the people in any group are nice, raised to be polite, and have more in common than not.
Susan RoAne
#41. There is this immediate connection, this intimacy when you're acting because there's no room to be polite or shy. Also, as an actor I get to connect with women I've never met before.
Jessica Chastain
#42. If you silence yourself, if you try to be good, if you try to be polite, or toe a party line, you end up paying for that in the long run. You pay for it ... with your homeland, or with your soul, or with your artistic vision.
Diana Abu-Jaber
#43. What?" I demand, too tired and frazzled to be polite. "Did you think I didn't care? Do you think I'm not human?"
"No," he replies. "I think you are royal.
Amy Ewing
#44. I ain't saying you're a liar, because that wouldn't be polite. But I'll tell you this, ma'am. If I loved liars, I'd hug you to death.
Jim Thompson
#45. Even awful people can be polite for a few minutes," their father told them. "Any longer than that and they revert to the bastards they really are.
Kevin Wilson
#46. Why do I feel the need to be polite? It was not good seeing him. It was torturous. I hope I can avoid him the rest of the night."
"Maybe he'll trip and fall into the pool."
"Ryan can't swim."
"Then I'll push him into the pool.
Jennifer Shirk
#47. I don't want to be polite. I don't think campaigning is polite. That's a disingenuous effort.
Carl Paladino
#48. What they failed to teach you at school was that the whole business of being human just got messier and more complicated as you got older. You could tell the truth, be polite, take everyone's feelings into consideration and still have to deal with other people's shit. At nine or ninety.
Mark Haddon
#49. I will die for the art & what I believe in. The art ain't always gon' be polite.
Kanye West
#50. Dorothea sniffed and looked around the room, her distaste clear. "Try to be polite, Mother," Marjorie said. "I am always polite." "Then try to be nice.
Jane Goodger
#51. If a Democrat took Republicans on rudely, they wouldn't be elevated in the Democratic Party. There's a different standard. We're supposed to be polite to people.
Dannel Malloy
#52. I think if anything I am perhaps more inclined than most people are to be polite and considerate because I am aware that human relationships are innately fragile and kind of dangerous.
Alex Colville
#53. I felt rather exhausted, and wondered, rather shocked at my callous thought, why old people were sometimes such a strain. Worse than young children or puppies because one had to be polite.
Daphne Du Maurier
#54. Don't anybody mention ice skating; Grandmaw is too old and frail and it wouldn't be polite. Hilda, you suggest dominoes and we'll all chime in - Grandmaw likes dominoes. We'll go skating some other time. Okay, kids?" Jubal
Robert A. Heinlein
#55. I can't tell you. I would say that if I did, I would have to kill you, but that wouldn't be polite.
Sanjaya Malakar
#56. The three C's of leadership are Consideration,Caring,and Courtesy.Be polite to everyone.
Brian Tracy
#57. A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion.
Voltaire
#58. To be polite to everybody except the people they love most is a nervous affectation that afflicts many families ... when they come home, they take off their smiles and soft words, and sit about, spiritually in their underwear. This isn't pretty.
Margaret Fishback
#59. Obviously I'm going to be polite, so nobody has anything to fear from me.
Judith Martin
#60. if you love to behave rude properly, you need to learn to be polite first, from the deep of your mind.
Viplob Pratik
#61. 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
#62. The plumber plodded along in silence, like a man who has learned to be polite to lunatics through dealing with civil engineers.
Lindsey Davis
#63. You have to be polite with your friends and your family, but in your art, it's important to not be polite.
Lisa Yuskavage
#64. Create your own job. Become the master of what you do. Fully imerse yourself in your culter. Be humble. You are never above having to pack boxes. Never forget where you came from. And always be polite. Good old-fashioned manners can get you very far. -Jenne Lomardo
Sophia Amoruso
#67. It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.
Niels Bohr
#68. [C]hildren were a much more difficult audience than adults because no on had yet had a chance to teach them that it was better to be polite than honest.
Patricia Briggs
#69. She wants to be polite and not hurt your feelings, so she's not going to laugh right now. But inside, inside she's laughing.
Derek Landy
#70. It was difficult to be polite when you wanted to run away.
Marissa Meyer
#71. Be polite to all, friendly to none. Be professional. Be ready to kill everyone and everything.
Janet Morris
#72. Texas, to be respected must be polite. Santa Anna living, can be of incalculable benefit to Texas; Santa Anna dead, would just be another dead Mexican.
Sam Houston
#73. I learned my values. It's better to be poor than to be beholden. Wealth is not the object of life. You should be polite as long as possible, and when you can't be polite anymore, don't run.
Daniel Woodrell
#74. My mother taught me to be polite to dragons. Particularly polite, I mean; she taught me to be ordinary polite to everyone ... but dragons are a special case. -Daystar (Talking to Dragons)
Patricia C. Wrede
#75. I did think reviewers were supposed to be polite about story collections - collections are rather delicate creatures in the literary environment - but not everybody got this memo, I guess.
Lorrie Moore
#76. When you're a new person and a new idea, you get invited to all these different things, and everybody wants a piece of you. And you want to be polite and say yes to everything, but it gets dangerous.
Theophilus London
#78. Just thought you should know," she said, winking. "Can I tell them to piss off?"
"Oh sure," Jeth said, not nearly as amused by the situation as she was. "Just be polite about it."
Lizzie grinned and said into the comm, "This is the Montrose. The captain says piss off. Politely.
Mindee Arnett
#79. When you don't know everything that you could know, it's a fine time to shut your fucking noisemaker and be polite.
Scott Lynch
#80. I hate it when people are impolite to waiters or to the valet or the guy in the supermarket. There's no need for that; it doesn't cost anything to be polite.
Ashley Madekwe
#81. I remember very little of my father, but one thing I do remember is him telling me always to be polite. It costs you nothing but breath, and can buy you as much as your life.
Jim Butcher
#82. Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.
Benny Goodman
#83. Take a bite, but be polite! Not everyone enjoys the sight, Of food that's chewed, It looks quite crude! So close your mouth when you cheeeeew!
Sheri McClure-Pitler
#84. Sometimes it wasn't easy to be polite to someone who locked you in a mudpit
Samantha Boyette
#85. I do not see why I should be polite to tyrants, who slobber of humanitarianism and think only of their own petty interests.
Paul Feyerabend
#86. If you go out on a date, for the first date, a guy should pay, a guy should be respectful and, you know, I'm not saying roll out a red carpet, but, like, open the door and just be polite and just have common courtesy. I don't think that's too much to ask.
Carly Aquilino
#89. Sometimes in life, it doesn't matter that you've just woken up on a floor. Or that you haven't brushed your teeth. Or that your hair is a mess and you're wearing the clothes you slept in. Sometimes you just have to be polite.
Matthew Norman
#90. Emmy and I are still Habte Sadek's favorite foreigners, and it is all because I wanted to look at his feet when I was eleven years old! But it never hurts to be polite to people.
Elizabeth Wein
#91. How foolish to think that one can ever slam the door in the face of age. Much wiser to be polite and gracious and ask him to lunch in advance.
Noel Coward
#92. My mother raised me to be polite, to be demure. I have long operated under the idea that civility is subservience. But it hasn't gotten me very far, that type of kindness. The world respects people who think they should be running it.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#93. In society, there is enormous pressure for us to try and look good, to be politically correct, to say the right things, to be polite and basically to sacrifice ourselves on the way.
Thalia
#94. It is just as easy to be polite as to be rude, and men are served better for love than for fear.
G.A. Henty
#95. Manners count. Be polite and seek out the common ground, not just the high ground.
Allan Dare Pearce
#96. You must sit down to speak this language,
It is so heavy you can't be polite or chatter in it.
For once you have begun a sentence, the whole course of your life is laid out before you"
-quoted in "The Geography of Bliss
Bill Holm
#97. Women are taught that if you want to be a lady, keep your opinions to yourself and be polite.
Judy Gold
#98. Sometimes if you have very confident people, you have to tell them please, be polite, there are other players are good enough as you and you should never speak out of an orchestra.
Kurt Masur
#100. Trying to read slowly when you haven't had time to read is like holding back hunger. It's like having a meal in front of you and knowing you should be polite and use a fork, when all you really want to do is lean over and shovel it in with both hands.
Laura Hendrie
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