Polite Quotes - Page 9

• I pride myself on being fairly polite on a set so it's kind of a guilty pleasure to poke others on the set.

  Willem Dafoe

  Pride, Kind, Guilty

  "Mr Bean's Holiday - Willem Dafoe interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I can be very polite, and I think that people can confuse that for all sorts of things... But I'll take that over people assuming that I'm smart just because I'm short and rude.

  Amy Adams

  Smart, Thinking, People

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 6, 2013.

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• 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

  Thinking, Challenges, Taste

  "Margaret Cho: Laugh Lines". Interview with Katie Halper, www.guernicamag.com. June 15, 2015.

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• 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

  Men, Vocabulary, Would Be

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.209, Harvard University Press

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• You ask me about my ex-wife? That is not polite. But I will answer. I got another wife now. Much younger, much nicer, much prettier. And so much more intelligent than Benetton.'

  Oliviero Toscani

  Intelligent, Wife, Answers

  Source: valuet.wordpress.com

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• You have to be polite with your friends and your family, but in your art, it's important to not be polite.

  Lisa Yuskavage

  Art, Important, Our Family

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Track is full of the absolute nicest and most polite athletes in all of sports, and where does it get us?

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Sports, Athlete, Track

  "Usain Bolt, a Collapse, and an Epic Beer Mile". Interview with Nicholas Thompson, www.newyorker.com. August 27, 2015.

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• I do not see why I should be polite to tyrants, who slobber of humanitarianism and think only of their own petty interests.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Thinking, Tyrants, Should

  "Science in a Free Society". Book by Paul Feyerabend, 1978.

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• In the sallies of badinage a polite fool shines; but in gravity he is as awkward as an elephant disporting.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Elephants, Shining, Awkward

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• Polite beggary is too common.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Common, Request, Beggary

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• 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

  People, Mind, Racist

  "Eddie Izzard: Sexie". Documentary, Comedy, 2003.

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• We often laughed at others in our house, and I picked up the craft of being polite while people were present and laughing later if there was anything to laugh about.

  Muriel Spark

  Funny, Humor, People

  Muriel Spark (2011). “Curriculum Vitae: A Volume of Autobiography”, p.15, New Directions Publishing

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• I had a holiday job in a kitchen, but I think well draw a polite veil over that. There was nothing joyous or creative about it. And none of this helped my studies.

  Fergus Henderson

  Jobs, Holiday, Thinking

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• The way Woody Allen directs, there isn't a lot of direction. He kind of might give a few gentle suggestions, but he really says right from the first day, "Just make it sound natural, and if you don't like something, put it in your own words." And [Woody Allen] gives you a lot of freedom and just very polite.

  Owen Wilson

  Giving, Sound, Suggestions

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• When somebody meets me in the street, they say, 'Hello, how you doing?' And I say the same back. It's just two minutes of your time and it's alright. I don't like people taking liberties when I'm with my family, but mostly people are really polite and that's lovely.

  Ray Winstone

  Two, People, Lovely

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• I don't go out of my way to get noticed. When I'm in Scotland it's tough, because loads of people come up to me. They're always really polite. It's nice, it's fun and good to speak to people who aren't involved in tennis, but some have this habit of just staring at me and that makes me really self-conscious. I'd rather they came up and said hello.

  Andy Murray

  Fun, Nice, Scotland

  "INTERROGATION: Andy Murray". Mirror Online Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. July 1, 2007.

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• Canadians are more polite when they are being rude than Americans are when they are being friendly.

  Edgar Friedenberg

  Rude, Friendly, Being Rude

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• She wants to be polite and not hurt your feelings, so she's not going to laugh right now. But inside, inside she's laughing.

  Derek Landy

  Hurt, Laughing, Feelings

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• Democracy isn't solely about polite conversations in parliaments. It needs to be continually refreshed with raw passions, anger and ideals.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Passion, Democracy, Needs

  Geoff Mulgan (2006). “Good and Bad Power: The Ideals and Betrayals of Government”

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• Me and polite have never been on close terms.

  Jim Butcher

  Term

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Side Jobs: Stories from the Dresden Files”, p.97, Penguin

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• This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Selfish, Nice, Reading

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• The ladies pass the timee with gossip and hearsay. This is what they have in place of freedom- gime and gossip. Their lives are small and careful. I do not wish to live this way. I should like to make my mark. To venture opinions that may not be polite or even correct but are mine nonetheless. If I am to be hanged for anything, I should like to feel that I go to the gallows on my own strength.

  Libba Bray

  Gossip, Wish, May

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• Next year, Equality Now will celebrate - if that’s the word - will clock its twentieth year. Two decades of fighting the good fight, fighting the cause, and in case I haven’t been the clear, the cause is that one half of the human race is given the same basic equal rights that the other half enjoys. Or, not given. Given back. That is not a milestone, twenty years, that I intend to go unnoticed. I want to make some noise. I want to make a joyful noise, I want to make too much noise. I want the neighbors to complain. I’m tired of being polite about something that matters so much.

  Joss Whedon

  Tired, Fighting, Years

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• It took us most of the morning to put together the letter she sent to the Frontier Management Department, and I learned a lot about how to be frigidly polite and still leave somebody feeling like they'd been spanked.

  Patricia C. Wrede

  Morning, Feelings, Together

  Patricia C. Wrede (2012). “The Far West”, p.24, Scholastic Inc.

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• If a man isn't being nice when you're out, all you have to do is remain polite and then go home early.

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  Sherry Argov

  Nice, Home, Men

  Sherry Argov, “Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship”

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