British Politeness Quotes

#1. We are condemned to be free people, liberated people who must make life-defining decisions. Freedom requires choices and all choices entail value decisions.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#2. It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.

Rand Paul

#3. I go to the dentist every six months, I get a cleaning, so ... I'm fortunate enough that those fluoride treatments as a child worked. Not getting any cavities.

Daniel Tosh

#4. We can have ethics and we can have honor and we can have loyalty," he insisted, "and every other key virtue we learned as humans." He was roaring at me under his breath, as the British so often do it, with a veneer of silvery politeness.

Anne Rice

#5. I was twelve years old when I started reading 'Vogue.'

Brad Goreski

#6. It's wonderful to read interviews by old blues guys - they talk about all their influences, they talk about who taught them how to play, and who they saw, and how they were determined to play that way.

Billy Corgan

#7. Your life's work begins when your great joy meets the world's great hunger.

Kate Bornstein

#8. But the color of a Negro's skin makes him easily recognizable, makes him suspect, converts him into a defenseless target

Richard Wright

#9. My passion has always been books and literature, and teaching.

Azar Nafisi

#10. To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#11. Dissembling profiteth nothing; a feigned countenance, and slightly forged externally, deceiveth but very few.

Seneca The Younger

#12. Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, surely.

Anne Rice

#13. People complain of the unequal distribution of wealth [but it is a far greater] injustice that any one man should have the power to write so many brilliant essays ... There is no one who writes like [Thomas Huxley].

Charles Darwin