Polite Society Quotes

#1. I think that when you are accused of being in bad taste it can be quite positive. You're challenging the notions of polite society. I'd like to put across the notion that bad taste is actually good for you.

Margaret Cho

#2. Girls were meant to paint screens, sob out ballads, and play the pianoforte, not see through the masks of polite society. It

Alison Goodman

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

Stephen King

#6. 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

#7. 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

#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. 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

#10. Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.

Karin Slaughter

#11. 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

#12. We went through all the usual exchanges dictated by Hollywood and polite society. She tried to scream and bite the palm of my hand, and I told her to be quiet because I wasn't going to hurt her unless she shouted. She shouted and I hurt her. Pretty standard stuff, really.

Hugh Laurie

#13. In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies.

Stephen King

#14. Lyall had spent centuries nibbling about the great layered cake that was polite society while Lord Akeldama acted the part of the frosting on its top.

Gail Carriger

#15. In polite society one laughs at all the jokes, including the ones one has heard before.

Frank Dane

#16. 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

#17. They are clean, dressed and coiffed neatly, and seem serene. They look and act like "normal" shoppers, gamblers, dawdlers, and visitors, but "they" are solo homeless women - mainly over forty years of age and surprisingly well educated - who blend into polite society.

Marjorie Bard

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

John McAfee

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.

Jessica Hagedorn

#23. That fool has no idea how to behave in polite society," his friend agreed. Apparently the polite thing to do was lie and insinuate horrible things with impunity, all while never expecting any repercussions.

Larry Correia

#24. The dinner table is the center for the teaching and practicing not just of table manners but of conversation, consideration, tolerance, family feeling, and just about all the other accomplishments of polite society except the minuet.

Judith Martin

#25. I was anathema in polite society after I made 'Last House.' People literally would grab their children and run from the room.

Wes Craven

#26. 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

#27. Manners without sincerity, is called polite society

Josh Stern

#28. 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

#29. 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

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

Barry Eisler

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

Edward St. Aubyn

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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

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

M.L. Stedman

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. Etiquette is the ceremonial code of polite life, more voluminous and minute in each portion of society according to its rank.

John Ramsay McCulloch

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

Greg Bear

#42. 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

#43. 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