Quotes About Polite Conversation

#1. We need a language that lets us scribble and smudge and smear, not a language where you have to sit with a teacup of types balanced on your knee and make polite conversation with a strict old aunt of a compiler.

Paul Graham

#2. 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

#3. Naw, rudeness is for amateurs. I prefer going right from polite conversation to extreme violence.

Stephen Schochet

#4. I hate polite conversation. I hate it when people stand around and go, 'Hi, how are you?' I hate words that don't have any reason or meaning. Also I hate it when people smoke in elevators and closed in places. It's just so rude.

Madonna Ciccone

#5. There was a nice dilemma.
How does one interject into a polite conversation,
"By the way, in case you're ever interested, I do have a penise."?

Brent Weeks

#6. polite conversation is rarely either

Fran Lebowitz

#7. ... but all day long I would be training myself to think, to understand, to criticize, to know myself; I was seeking for the absolute truth: this preoccupation did not exactly encourage polite conversation.

Simone De Beauvoir

#8. Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow.

Jonathan Swift

#9. One of the things that Jessie liked about the heightened security surrounding airplane travel was the fact that you didn't have to sit around the airport making polite conversation until flights were called.

Joan Klengler

#10. I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.

Nadia Giosia

#11. The vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation. What would be base, or even obscene, to the obscene, becomes illustrious, spoken in a new connexion of thought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. Polite Conversation 'Tis happy for him, that his father was before him.

Jonathan Swift

#13. Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods that go beyond polite conversation.

John Yoo

#14. I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.

Samuel Beckett

#15. 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

#16. The author relates George Bernard Shaw's sentiments that polite conversation excludes the only two subjects that matter, religion and politics.

Lyle W. Dorsett

#17. I think the first prerequisite to civilization is an ability to make polite conversation.

W. H. Auden

#18. The polite conversation that carried over from cocktails into dinner was so stifling that it carried a certain ruthlessness,

Bret Easton Ellis

#19. The almost egregiously English couple, Cedric and Rosamund Chailey, had slipped quietly away when the conversation turned to God. It had not seemed polite to be present when anything so American was being discussed.

Michael Frayn

#20. Neither question nor answer was meant as anything more than a polite preamble to conversation.

Arundhati Roy

#21. I'm modern because I make the difficult seem easy, and so I can communicate with the whole world.

Paulo Coelho

#22. Whatever is popular deserves attention.

James Mackintosh

#23. All his life he would cherish the memory of an endless caravan of camels alongside the railway line, the laden beasts plodding patiently through the snow, ignoring the twentieth century as it hurtled past them in a clash of iron and a shriek of steam.

Ken Follett

#24. The constitution has thus ended up not as Japan's ultimate governing legal document, but in the grand political Japanese tradition as a somewhat blurred and compromised token of legitimacy, hoisted about erratically like a portable shrine by competing contenders for power.

R. Taggart Murphy

#25. Who am I, and where am I going? You are the answer to this question. You are here to ask the question, and to be the answer.

Michael Beckwith

#26. We are growing day by day as we are continuously striving for excellence in life.

Euginia Herlihy

#27. I was born in the city of Brantford, Ontario, Canada - but by the time I'd left high school, I'd moved seven times with my family, my father's engineering work taking us to places as far-flung as Bay City, Texas, and Wolnae-Ri in South Korea.

Susanna Kearsley

#28. If you do not want me to break your wrist with one squeeze of my hand, you will do two things immediately, First you will remove your hand from my woman's purse. Second, you will remove your hand from my shirt. It's attached to the body that belongs to the owner of the purse.

Jen Frederick

#29. I'm going to destroy you, little man!" Sourcefield yelled after me. "I'll rip you apart like a piece of tissue paper in a hurricane!"
"Wow," I said, reaching an intersection and taking cover by an old mailbox.
"What?" Tia asked.
"That was a really good metaphor.

Brandon Sanderson

#30. A dearth of words a woman need not fear; But 'tis a task indeed to learn to hear: In that the skill of conversation lies; That shows and makes you both polite and wise.

Edward Young

#31. It's not polite to pass out when you've got company. Conversation,

David Morrell

#32. I am not going to tell you how I believe, but I do believe in God.

Quentin Tarantino

#33. Beyonce adores my little boy. She takes him everywhere.

Solange Knowles

#34. But always, at moments when his mind was like a blind octopus, squirming in an agony of knife-cuts, she would drop in that accusation.

Ford Madox Ford

#35. Richard Nixon was an evil man - evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.

Hunter S. Thompson

#36. But he does insist on a conversation. Goddamn it! Why can't people just do what I want them to do and be gone? It's a worldwide conspiracy to make me be polite when I don't want to be.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#37. 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

#38. Sex is good, but not as good as fresh sweet corn.

Garrison Keillor

#39. Knowing that religion does not furnish grosser bigots than law, I expect little from old judges.

Thomas Jefferson