Polite Talk Quotes

#1. Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive

Petrarch

#2. In later life, we don't easily talk of fears, but instead we discuss our 'concerns.' Fear seems too primal and hysterical, but concern is polite and intellectual and nicely under control.

Michael Leunig

#3. I would say L.A. is more polite than London - it's a very careful place. People talk a lot in code.

Tom Hooper

#4. Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in.

Harper Lee

#5. Though I was starved for contact, I didn't stop to talk to any of these strangers. I had forgotten how to convincingly speak the polite things strangers say to each other.

Aspen Matis

#6. 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

#7. Talk to strangers politely. You don't how many of them will become your close companions.

Israelmore Ayivor

#8. Talk to strangers politely ... Every friend you have now was once a stranger, although not every stranger becomes a friend.

Israelmore Ayivor

#9. I continued, "The painting shows this fish with a big eye and a halo, floating in air, and underneath the fish are all these Native Americans having sex." "What? What does that have to do with Custer's Last Stand?" "Well, the painting is titled, Holy Mackerel, Look at All Those Fucking Indians.

Nelson DeMille

#10. I like reading ... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf.

Andrea Bocelli

#11. Truly, hope is the saint's covering, wherein he wraps himself, when he lays his body down to sleep in the grave: "My flesh," saith David, "shall rest in hope."

William Gurnall

#12. Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. We pretend that no one's a racist anymore, but it's easier to talk about pornography in polite company than racial integration

Bob Herbert

#14. It's not polite to ask if a man has a big salami in his pants, okay?

Kevin Hearne

#15. Be aware of who in your life is actually interested in hearing you discuss your writing, and who's just asking to be polite. Listening to writers talk about their work is often excruciatingly dull.

Hanya Yanagihara

#16. "Never speak of me in the past tense". My presence here will be many times greater without the burden of my tortured body.

Rajneesh

#17. When we talk to somebody and we want to be nice or polite or show our more beautiful side, we try to use the best words that we know. This is what poets are doing. They are cleaning the words, they are inventing the sentiments, they are giving us a way to communicate.

Roberto Benigni

#18. I talk to my kids about my mother's energy and how she would have loved them. I talk about how kind and polite my father was. So that they have some kind of remembrance that even though my parents died from their addictions and so that they know they were genuine in how they were.

Lemon Andersen

#19. A person can't choose where he's born. But he can choose where he spends his life.

Anthony Capella

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

Bob Hope

#21. When I am in the Scottish Parliament chamber, I often feel the need to sit for the entire debate. It's only courteous to listen to what everyone has to say, although I often find myself desperate to say something but too scared to stand up in case I regret it.

Margo MacDonald

#22. When we dream about those who are long since forgotten or dead, it is a sign that we have undergone a radical transformation and that the ground on which we live has been completely dug up: then the dead rise up, and our antiquity becomes modernity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#23. Come, daddy, Harry doesn't want to talk to us right now. He's just too polite to say it. ~Luna Lovegood

J.K. Rowling

#24. How happy can you be when you think every action and thought is being monitored by a judgmental ghost?

Dan Barker

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. Your skull encloses your brains. But never forget that anytime you open your mouth to talk, you have opened your mind for the entire world to see what is hidden in there!

Israelmore Ayivor

#28. The goal is always just trying to stretch yourself as an actor.

Andrew Scott

#29. Ah, Signor Halt,' he said uncertainly, 'you are making a joke, yes?'
'He is making a joke, no,' Will said. 'But he likes to think he is making a joke, yes.

John Flanagan

#30. The old adage that polite conversation should not include talk of politics or religion is understandable because both subjects are so heavily laden with emotion that discussion can quickly turn to shouting. Blood is shed over politics, religion and the two in combination.

John C. Danforth

#31. How's it going down there?"
"It's weird. They're too polite, they talk funny, and stuff has too much shine on it. But the coffee's worse than Central's, so that's something.

J.D. Robb

#32. I long for another human face just as I fear it.

Robin McKinley

#33. He kissed me, though not in a sexy way. Gentle. Tender.

Gabrielle Zevin

#34. She felt free now. Free and empty. No need to talk to anyone, or be polite, or bother about anything.

Joan G. Robinson

#35. The Masonic aspect of Hollywood is so bizarre.

Minnie Driver

#36. Passionately obsessed by anything we love
an avalanche of magic flattens the way ahead, levels, rules, reasons, dissents, bears us with it over chasms, fears, doubts. Without the power of that love ...

Richard Bach