Polite Quotes - Page 17

• A car to pick me up every day, a chair with my name on it, everybody being very polite... what can you do except sit back and watch it all, try to take it all in?

  Charles Dance

  Names, Car, Pick Me Up

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• 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

  Doors, Fans, Uninvited Guests

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• 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

  Life Changing, Kind, Changed

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• I find it very eerie when somebody is being really polite.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Eerie, Being Real

  Source: collider.com

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• In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Reading, Age, Instruction

  Oliver Goldsmith (1834). “The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: with a biographical memoir of the author, written expressly for this edition”, p.219

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• 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 that way."

  Nick Hanauer

  Years, People, Pay

  Source: gawker.com

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• 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

  Men, Doors, Sound

  "Betty White's Love Lessons". Sydney Morning Herald Interview, www.smh.com.au. May 17, 2011.

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• Books are necessary to correct the vices of the polite; but those vices are ever changing, and the antidote should be changed accordingly should still be new.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Book, Vices, Should

  Oliver Goldsmith (1833). “Miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith: with a new life of the author”, p.219

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• There were times when I asked myself whether I was being principled or simply a coward.... I was wrapped in the cocoon of tennis early in life, mainly by blacks like my most powerful mentor, Dr. Robert Walter Johnson of Lynchburg, Virginia. They insisted that I be unfailingly polite on the court, unfalteringly calm and detached, so that whites could never accuse me of meanness. I learned well. I look at photographs of the skinny, frail, little black boy that I was in the early 1950s, and I see that I was my tennis racquet and my tennis racquet was me. It was my rod and my staff.

  Arthur Ashe

  Powerful, Boys, Virginia

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• One of the greatest gifts a caring teacher can contribute to children is to help them learn to sit when they feel like running, to raise their hand when they feel like talking, to be polite to their neighbor, to stand in line without pushing, and to do their homework when they feel like playing. By introducing procedures in the classroom, you are also introducing procedures as a way of living a happy and successful life.

  Harry Wong

  Running, Teacher, Children

  Harry K. Wong, Rosemary Tripi Wong, Chelonnda Seroyer (2009). “The First Days of School: How to be an Effective Teacher”, Harry K Wong Publication

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• Now the dressing-room full of RSC hierarchy. Suddenly Trevor Nunn pushes his way through and 'Trevs' me. I've heard a lot about this 'Trevving', but never had it done to me. From what I'd heard, a 'Trev' is an arm round your shoulder and a sideways squeeze. But this 'Trev' is a full frontal hug, so complete and so intimate that the dressing-room instantly clears, as if by suction. I'm left alone in the arms of this famous man wondering whether it's polite to let go.

  Antony Sher

  Letting Go, Men, Hug

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• D.C. fans, I think, are so good. They just come up to me, and they're so nice and so polite and just, 'Hey, I hope you have a great career,' and 'How are you doing, everything's good?' That's pretty much where they leave it at.

  Bryce Harper

  Nice, Thinking, Careers

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• When youre a new person and a new idea, you get invited to all these different things, and everybody wants a piece of you. And you want to be polite and say yes to everything, but it gets dangerous.

  Theophilus London

  Ideas, Pieces, Want

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• I was a very polite schoolgirl who did her work very well and hid under tables. I'd hate to think I haven't changed at all.

  Joan Juliet Buck

  Hate, Thinking, Tables

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In the tropics the white feels weakened, or downright weak, whence comes the heightened tendency to outbursts of aggression. People who are polite, modest or even humble in Europe fall easily into a rage here, get into fights, destroy other people. . .

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Fall, Humble, Fighting

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• ...Everyone had to eat, but eating people wasn't polite.

  Kim Harrison

  People, Eating

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• 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

  People, Upset, Want

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• My only hope was to be polite.

  Mark Vonnegut

  Mark Vonnegut (2002). “The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity”, p.190, Seven Stories Press

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• I'm sure I'll find some use for the dress before summer."Kavill nodded, and closed his thick ledger. "Do let me know if it causes anyone to faint-or start a riot."She laughed under her breath, and turned to go, stuffing her hands into her pockets and praying her fingers didn't fall off on the way home."Here," Kavill said, and she turned to find a pair of exquisite dove-gray suede gloves in his hands. "On the house. For many years of loyal patronage." His face bore its usual mask of polite calm and courtesy, but his brown eyes were bright. "And a gift-for a year spent without any gloves at all.

  Sarah J. Maas

  Love, Summer, Fall

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• The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.

  William Blake

  Respect, Art, Men

  William Blake (1988). “William Blake”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Time, Busy, Folks

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• Making an effort is polite, and getting ready and looking after yourself makes an event more fun.

  Jude Law

  Fun, Effort, Events

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• It’s considered perfectly normal in this society to approach dying people who you don’t know but who are unbelievers and say, ‘Now are you gonna change your mind?’ That is considered almost a polite question.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Perfectly Normal, People, Mind

  "Christopher Hitchens: the top 10 quotes from the author, journalist and atheist", www.mirror.co.uk. December 16, 2011.

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• I love polite people, late September, weeping mortar, and my fantastic fands (fans/friends)

  Matthew Gray Gubler

  People, Fans, September

  Twitter post from Sep 02, 2010

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• Contrary to popular opinion, Christians are not nice polite people who never get angry with one another. Those are not the virtues of God's people. Our virtues are truth-telling, kindness, forgiveness and yes, even anger-as long as it is the anger that is part of true love-through which we move closer to one another and to the God who has shown us how it is done.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Christian, Kindness, Nice

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