Please Be Polite Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Please be polite. Nothing in life should erode the habit of saying thank you to people or praising them.

Richard Branson

#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. I wish somebody would have told me, 'Don't try too hard,' because when I was younger I wanted to try really hard. I wanted to please everybody and be this perfect, polite little girl.

Taylor Spreitler

#5. Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - to be on fire, like Juliet or Guinevere or Eloise ...

Emma Thompson

#6. Having the urge to write a novel, especially if you've yet to be published, is like having a medical condition impossible to mention in polite company - it's a relief simply to know there are fellow-sufferers out there.

Robert Harris

#7. Canadians are nice and polite. It's not just a stereotype.

Justin Trudeau

#8. 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

#9. Even when I have bad manners... I'm still polite!

Jose N. Harris

#10. What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle.

Stephen King

#11. If you aren't polite when giving criticism you will come off as an awful person and if you aren't polite when receiving criticism you will come off as an awful person.

S.A. Tawks

#12. Polite conversation followed rules. Topics were sequential, orderly, and flowed from one to the next like a gentle current when all those conversing were skilled.

Kresley Cole

#13. 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

#14. Politics is the polite way of telling somone else they're stupid.

Burnie Burns

#15. Spin' is a polite word for deception. Spinners mislead by means that range from subtle omissions to outright lies. Spin paints a false picture of reality by bending facts, mischaracterizing the words of others, ignoring or denying crucial evidence, or just 'spinning a yarn' - by making things up.

Kathleen Hall Jamieson

#16. There is no polite way to say that business is destroying the world.

Paul Hawken

#17. As a person, I'm polite - I want to please.

Karl Ove Knausgaard

#18. It's impossible to expect polite behavior from people who've never witnessed it.

Kathleen Parker

#19. He was composed, polite, and intelligent. All the things a prince should be.

Kiera Cass

#20. You lose nothing by being polite. The answer is 'No', but please say it politely and give the reasons ... Explain to me why 'No'. Don't change 'No' to 'Yes'. Don't be a fool. If there was a good reason why it is 'No', it must remain 'No', but the man must be told politely.

Mr. Lee

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. If someone offers to take your burden, you need to know he is serious, not just being polite and kind. Polite and kind do not last.

Amy Tan

#24. The help (in Japan) is very polite. They bow so much, you don't know which end to talk to.

Bob Hope

#25. 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

#26. I was raised to be polite, but not to suffer bullshit.

Stephen King

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

Jeff Goodell

#28. Every one in polite circles knew that, in America, "a gentleman couldn't go into politics." But,

Edith Wharton

#29. If you add your hot passion to the cold attitude of another person, it becomes lukewarm. Don't stand on the toes of dwarfs; stand on the shoulders of giants!

Israelmore Ayivor

#30. 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

#31. There are words to describe her, my dear, but one does not repeat them in polite company.

Gail Carriger

#32. It was like falling in love - the things that get you are so small, the things that keep you up at night are so particular to you that when you try to explain, the only reward anyone can give you is a dumb polite nod.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#33. In favor of southern womanhood as much as anybody, but not for preserving polite fiction at the expense of human life.

Harper Lee

#34. Conscience is just a polite word for cowardice. No civilised man regrets a pleasure.

Lord Henry Wotton

#35. Polite contempt. The barbed and poisonous weapon of the righteous.

Joanne Harris

#36. Being polite and grateful will make people more inclined to help you. And if people are willing to help you, you may accidentally get something you want.

Jason Sudeikis

#37. 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

#38. Being polite to a person is not a sign of respect for them. It is merely a sign of a good upbringing and a balanced nature.

Brandon Sanderson

#39. I'm not interested in being polite. It's false.

Libba Bray

#40. Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of 'touching' a man's heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it.

G.K. Chesterton