I took classes taught by an elderly woman who wrote children's stories. She was polite about the science fiction and fantasy that I kept handing in, but she finally asked in exasperation, 'Can't you write anything normal?'
People are always surprised when they spend time with my children by how normal they are. They're polite. They're well mannered. They're very down to earth, in a way.
Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.
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.
I am the common man. I'm polite, I love my family and I play by the rules. And sometimes I get pushed around. That's my lifestyle, and that's what I try to bring to characters.
When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine that he is polite all the time.
My mom always taught me to be sweet and polite and cross my legs because it's what the guys like. Actually, they like a raunchy girl once in a while.
When telemarketers call me now, I won't get the blow-horn. I'm more polite than the average person.
I enjoyed my upbringing, my siblings did, we're polite, we're respectful, but at the end of the day we're young, we like to have fun. But now, more so than ever, the youth has been vilified to the point where it feels like you can't enjoy being young any more, you just have to sit it out and wait until you get old.
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.
Political civility is not about being polite to each other. It's about reclaiming the power of 'We the People' to come together, debate the common good and call American democracy back to its highest values amid our differences.
I seem to have very polite fans, not fanatical ones.
Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
Balanced is probably what I am, although that's just a polite way to say that you don't do anything very well.
Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
I'm okay. Nobody's bothering me. Everyone's very kind, and very polite. I don't feel like my whole life changed.
Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
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.
Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.
When a book of mine comes out, I instantly go hunting the net, not for praise, but for criticism, because that's how you learn, from people who don't have to be polite to you.
Especially these days where everything is so polite and so proper, I think that rites of passage are good.
The nerves are a problem on trumpet, because when you mess up everyone can hear it. Just remember most people are too polite to say anything about it. That should calm your nerves.
A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.
Patience can be a good thing - but not necessarily. Sometimes it's not so bad to be impatient. I'm a little bit too polite.
I like to see things. I see a lot more art than I'd like to see. We have to be polite and see the art shows of people we know. We see a lot of art.
I don't write polite letters. I don't like to plea-bargain. I like to fight.
Tequila. Straight. There's a real polite drink. You keep drinking until you finally take one more and it just won't go down. Then you know you've reached your limit.
The concert is a polite form of self induced torture.
There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.
Polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing and solving our real problems.
A lot of people ask me, 'How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?' It's because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they're gonna say no to you, at least they're gonna be polite about it.
Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children.
In all great epochs of history, the existence of standards - that is, the conscious adoption of type-forms - has been the criterion of a polite, well-ordered society; for it is a commonplace that repetition of the same things for the same purpose exercises a settling and civilizing influence on men's minds.
