Top 100 I'm Polite Quotes
#1. I'll have pot in my home for guests - I'm polite! - but I don't sit around and smoke by myself, ever. Not like I did when I was young.
John Waters
#2. I'm polite. I guess that's the dichotomy within me. I don't like to piss people off just for the sake of pissing them off. I pick my battles.
Lucinda Williams
#3. In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
Rachel Weisz
#4. I'm the best kind of gentleman, darlin'. I'm polite in public and filthy in private." I
Emma Hart
#5. I crossed my arms. "You're saying I'm not usually polite?"
He staged a sigh. "It's amazing how quickly I can regret saying something with you ... "
"I'm polite. I'm very fucking polite.
Lani Diane Rich
#6. I am the common man. I'm polite, I love my family and I play by the rules. And sometimes I get pushed around. That's my lifestyle, and that's what I try to bring to characters.
Eugene Levy
#8. I'm not sure the prince was ever taught the polite way to speak to people," Cleo replied. "And yet," Magnus said, "you're still following me, aren't you?" "For now. But you should remember that charm opens far more doors than harsh words do." "And a sharp ax will open every door." The
Morgan Rhodes
#9. I think it's actually the more polite thing to do, because I'm not coercing partygoers into some big farewell moment with me. Then other people feel like they have to stop what they're doing and hug me, too. It's time-wasting dominoes.
Mindy Kaling
#10. 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
#11. I'm very polite by nature, even the voices in my head let each other finish their sentences.
Graham Parke
#12. When telemarketers call me now, I won't get the blow-horn. I'm more polite than the average person.
Adam DeVine
#13. I am an exceptional thief, Mrs. McClane. And since I'm moving up to kidnapping, you should be more polite.
Hans Gruber
#14. I am terribly British. Especially in the eyes of Americans. I drink several gallons of tea a day, I'm often excessively polite and it's only through many years of expensive and painful dental work that I don't have bad teeth.
Rhianna Pratchett
#16. 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.'
Gary Allan
#17. I can be very polite, and I think that people can confuse that for all sorts of things ... But I'll take that over people assuming that I'm smart just because I'm short and rude.
Amy Adams
#18. Just because I'm flaunting it doesn't mean you can stare for hours on end. A polite ogle is appreciated and suitable for a flaunt. Slobbering is not.
Katie MacAlister
#19. I was anathema in polite society after I made 'Last House.' People literally would grab their children and run from the room.
Wes Craven
#20. As the boy looked at it, my thing moved and he whispered "It is splendid! Do let me try its love-making" ...
And I was too polite to disobey.
Henry M. Christman
#21. When somebody meets me in the street, they say, 'Hello, how you doing?' And I say the same back. It's just two minutes of your time and it's alright. I don't like people taking liberties when I'm with my family, but mostly people are really polite and that's lovely.
Ray Winstone
#22. I'm okay. Nobody's bothering me. Everyone's very kind, and very polite. I don't feel like my whole life changed.
Berenice Bejo
#23. All fame is is having people you don't know coming up to you and saying, 'Hello.' I'm always polite and people are always nice, but it's weird.
Karl Pilkington
#24. Why don't - " He stopped abruptly and took a breath. "Normally I'm good at being polite, but with you, I have to try very hard."
"Were you trying very hard the two times you've compared me to a prostitute today?
Kelly Zekas
#25. You can go back 150 years and literally find the same people saying the same thing in the same way. "If we have to pay you more, it will be bad for you." And that's because saying that is a much more polite way of saying, "I'm rich, you're poor, and I would prefer to keep it what way."
Nick Hanauer
#26. How many times have I told you? Polite persons do not take supper in the nude.
Ransom Riggs
#27. I don't write polite letters. I don't like to plea-bargain. I like to fight.
Roy Cohn
#28. Champagne?" Carl asked.
"You know we don't drink champagne, Carl." Ricky laughed.
"Yes, but I don't think it's polite in mixed company to gulp down glasses of blood.
Tina Folsom
#29. Italy is another Pack's territory. You're a guest; make sure that you are a polite one.
God, I hope he told Heather that.
Elizabeth Morgan
#30. Liz cleared her throat. "Isn't there a more polite term we're supposed to use nowadays? Like ... little person, or vertically challenged,or-"
"I'm not going to call myself the god of vertically challenged people," Bes grumbled. "I'm a dwarf!
Rick Riordan
#31. I'm always polite in auditions, but I wasn't like, 'Oh, please give me the job,' for 'Robin Hood' because I didn't think I'd get it. I got told about the audition just a few days before I went to India to film something else. I must have been a bit cocky with it.
Jonas Armstrong
#32. I'm not sure when exactly I knew I was funny, but I always knew I was different. I never had an 'edit' button and would say whatever came into my head. Most of the time, what came out of my mouth was the very thing everyone else was thinking - but too polite or afraid to verbalize.
Judy Gold
#33. I always had that adolescent notion that I had to get out of Texas. But I'm really glad I grew up there. It's where I learned to look people in the eye, to be straightforward and polite.
Sarah Shahi
#34. I'm brash and abrasive but that's because I've noticed when people are nice and polite they never get anywhere.
Mahathir Mohamad
#35. Patience can be a good thing - but not necessarily. Sometimes it's not so bad to be impatient. I'm a little bit too polite.
Helen Mirren
#36. added because it was the polite thing to do. "I'm going home," Cricket insisted as if Anna had threatened to drag her bodily back into the
Nevada Barr
#37. I get recognized in the street really frequently, which is really shocking. I'm excruciatingly wary of any female under the age of 19. Even when some of them come up to me, they're usually very cordial, nice and polite.
Ian Harding
#38. I am an incorrigible devotee to solitude, and am never so cheerful, I believe, or so unruffled by small difficulties as when I'm alone. There's a sort of obligation to be polite and pleasant to yourself when nobody else is round ...
Susan Hale
#39. As it says on the Tshirts:'I don't scare easily - I'm a librarian.', which was the polite version of the original:'Don't give me any of your shit - I'm a librarian.
Jasper Fforde
#40. Emily Post says that talking about oneself isn't very polite.' 'I'm sure Miss Post is perfectly correct, but that doesn't seem to stop the rest of us.
Amor Towles
#41. I'm big on my kids being conventionally polite, and it works really well for them.
Mayim Bialik
#42. I'm being ironic. Don't interrupt a man in the midst of being ironic, it's not polite. There!
Ray Bradbury
#43. Obviously I'm going to be polite, so nobody has anything to fear from me.
Judith Martin
#44. I'm more attracted to the bad guys. Why? Because in real life, I don't know any good guys. I know okay guys. I know polite guys. I know people who can control themselves.
Vincent Cassel
#45. 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
#46. I'm teaching my daughters to be ladies by showing them how to dress appropriately when they leave the house, and how to be thoughtful and polite.
Debi Mazar
#47. The great thing about novels is that you can be as unshy as you want to be. I'm very polite in person. I don't want to talk about startling or upsetting things with people.
Nicholson Baker
#48. I still like to see that a man opens the door. I like those touches of chivalry that are fast disappearing. If I sound old-fashioned, it's because I'm as old as I am! But it's just polite.
Betty White
#49. I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.
John Updike
#50. It annoys me how pretty my voice is ... that sounds incredibly immodest, but it annoys me how polite it can sound when perhaps what I'm singing is deeply acidic.
Thom Yorke
#51. I'm English and I'm used to coming from a world of period dramas, where there's a very polite restraint to everything. Everybody's sort of sitting in drawing rooms.
Clive Owen
#52. She looked up at me with a polite smile, her dark hair long and appealing ... I liked the smile.
Maybe I didn't look like a beaten-up bum. Maybe on me it just looked ruggedly determined.
"I'm sorry, sir," she said, "but the addiction counseling center is on twenty-six."
Sigh.
Jim Butcher
#53. At first, I was polite. Really. I said "excuse me," I tried to squeeze through gaps, even apologized for stepping on some toes. What can I say, I'm Canadian.
Agatha Christie
#54. Listen, I'm from Belfast. We're not polite people. And it's language. We're direct.
Paula Malcomson
#55. I think I've realized that business and being polite [don't] match. You can be fair, but me being polite was not me being fair to myself.
Beyonce Knowles
#56. As a Texan, I say ma'm and sir to my age contemporaries and open doors for anyone that I can. This goes for men, too, though it is appreciated when they beat me to it and disappointing when they don't.
Tiffany Madison
#57. What I see as specially English is the charm - everyone is so polite. Being restrained is part of the charm. And I love the sense of humour - it takes me back to Australia. The English are great at making fun of themselves. They're so self-effacing.
Danielle De Niese
#58. People identify with the swashbuckling individuals, not polite little men who field their position well. Sir Galahad had a big following - but I'll bet Lancelot had more.
Bill Veeck
#59. I love polite people, late September, weeping mortar, and my fantastic fands (fans/friends)
Matthew Gray Gubler
#60. Why haven't you asked me how I do my tricks?" Celia asks, once they have reached the point where she is certain he is not simply being polite about the matter. "Because I do not wish to know," he says. "I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better remain in the dark.
Erin Morgenstern
#61. Baltimore is warm but pleasant ... I belong here, where everything is civilized and gay and rotted and polite.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#62. Without religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company, I mean Hell.
John Adams
#63. I felt that even when they were polite they hardly saw me, that they would have begged the pardon of Jack the Bear, never glancing his way if the bear happened to be walking along minding his business. It was confusing. I did not know if it was desirable or undesirable ...
Ralph Ellison
#64. We often laughed at others in our house, and I picked up the craft of being polite while people were present and laughing later if there was anything to laugh about.
Muriel Spark
#65. I'll be teaching you the nasty, furtive, polite ways to kill people
Robin Hobb
#66. Personally, I don't want to do a lot of angel deals in a year. I get approached a lot. I'm becoming less and less polite, which doesn't seem to be helping. A lot of the things I get pitched on are from people who just want to make money.
Jim McKelvey
#67. And my father?"
Brian's grin flashed. "I like thinking that's where I got the fifty.I told him he's better off sticking with the horses."
Keeley's brow rose. "And his response to that?"
"Isn't something I can repeat in polite company.
Nora Roberts
#68. Make me, dear Lord, polite and kind,
To everyone, I pray.
And may I ask you how you find
Yourself, dear Lord, today?
John B. Tabb
#69. Try to be polite."
"I'm always polite."
"You're always eyeing people's valuables. That's hardly polite.
Jodi Meadows
#70. The only jobs kids have are to do well in school, to be charming and polite, and be thankful. That's it. I'll house you, protect you, I'll even give my life for you, and in return, you will behave.
Gene Simmons
#71. Racist people, interestingly, are never as polite as smokers. Have you noticed that? Smokers always go, Do you mind if I smoke? Oh, you do? Okay, I'll go outside and have a cigarette.
Eddie Izzard
#73. Morning, ma'am. I'm looking for Tommy Mason. Is he around?" Polite and professional, that was Senior Agent Broussard.
"Lord, what's that no-good sonofabitch done now? Wait, you ain't a cop; you're a game warden. "What'd he do, run over a fish?
Susannah Sandlin
#74. I'm not interested in being polite. It's false.
Libba Bray
#75. I feel very uncomfortable when I eat in restaurants. I'm obnoxiously polite with the waiters: 'I just want a tuna sandwich. I'll go get it. You sit here - I'll get it, I'll make it.
Dana Gould
#76. I was raised to be polite, but not to suffer bullshit.
Stephen King
#77. All that is known for sure is that endometriosis is endemic and that it cannot be cured. Management is the best hope. This makes for treatments that are, if I am being polite, based on trial and error. If I am feeling less generous, they are shots in the dark.
Rose George
#78. As I have said, in the same way that you can tell if some sexism is happening to you by asking the question "Is this polite, or not?" you can tell whether some misogynistic societal pressure is being exerted on women by calmly enquiring, "And are the men doing this, as well?
Caitlin Moran
#79. American readers are so polite; their reactions make it seem like I've received thousands of thank-you notes. It's just lovely, and amazing the things people tell you that have touched them and related to their own lives.
Liane Moriarty
#80. I think my father gave me a great reverence for medical science. He was about as opposite to the personality of House as one could imagine. He was polite and easygoing, and would have gone to great lengths to make his patients feel attended to and heard and sympathized with.
Hugh Laurie
#81. Especially these days where everything is so polite and so proper, I think that rites of passage are good.
Emile Hirsch
#82. 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.
Miriam Makeba
#83. I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.
Jessica Hagedorn
#84. The nasty thing which no polite person nowadays will talk about in public. But death, even when unmentionable, remains inescapable. The one sure fact of life is that one day, with or without warning, quietly or painfully, it is going to stop.
J.I. Packer
#85. I can't remember how many times I advised students to stop writing the sunny hours and write from where it hurts: No one wants to read polite. It puts them to sleep.
Anne Bernays
#86. After several months in our trio relationship, my husband and I started telling friends about our girlfriend... No one seemed to mind the concept of an occasional three-way fling with a stranger, but the concept of dating a third person was a bit much for polite company.
Victoria Vantoch
#87. What were you doing talking to that man?" Emma lifted her chin to look him in the eye. "He was talking to me. I was only being polite." "Well, don't be. Do you hear me, Miss Smallwood? Stay away from him.
Julie Klassen
#88. We look at the people who tell the truth, who say real things in public, like they're confused. Crazy. As if everything should be said safely or not at all and what you feel shouldn't be taken seriously. Which is why it's not polite to say "I'm going to kiss you now because I can't do anything else.
Pleasefindthis
#89. I think the first prerequisite to civilization is an ability to make polite conversation.
W. H. Auden
#90. 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
#91. I am a polite, nonthreatening kind of dragon with excellent manners. Horns are hidden, tail is tucked away, fangs covered. I would never do anything cruel, like stab a man with a knife about ten times to get him to answer a question.
Ilona Andrews
#92. And I think because there is an essence of me that cares about other people and what other people think then that then makes me seem very sweet and polite.
Renee O'Connor
#93. Marlee, what are you doing? Get under a tent before you burn your skin."
She gave me a polite smile. "I'm happy here."
"No, really," I said, putting a hand around her arm. "You'll look like my hair.
Kiera Cass
#94. You ask me about my ex-wife? That is not polite. But I will answer. I got another wife now. Much younger, much nicer, much prettier. And so much more intelligent than Benetton.'
Oliviero Toscani
#95. I know it may come as a shock, but it's sort of considered polite to wait for the consent of the woman. In fact, I'm pretty sure that if you don't wait, you may have to deal with pesky criminal charges like kidnapping and rape.
Ilona Andrews
#96. When I left art school and went in search of work, visiting publishers and showing them my drawings and illustrations, I was met with a polite and sometimes enthusiastic response but no commissions.
Chris Riddell
#97. I stepped forward. Call me old-fashioned, but I wanted to keep his focus on me and not Annabeth. I think it's polite for a guy to protect his girlfriend from instant incineration.
Rick Riordan
#98. I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.
Duane Michals
#99. I really don't understand minimalism. It is so polite and boring. If you don't want anyone to notice you, you should stay home and grow your own vegetables.
Roberto Cavalli
#100. On the contrary, I like men. They are polite and helpful and necessary for dancing. And men are so handsome and different, aren't they?"
"Not all of us, clearly, but I'll let that go.
Victoria Dahl
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