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Tag Name "Polite" (300)

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Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like as the good woman said when she kissed her cow.
Jonathan Swift
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Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change.
Walter Isaacson
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Polite beggary is too common.
William Rounseville Alger
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Polite conversation is rarely either.
Fran Lebowitz
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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Polite conservationists leave no mark save the scars upon the Earth that could have been prevented had they stood their ground.
David R. Brower
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Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign.
Edward Young
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Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.
Ambrose Bierce
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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.
Lee Marvin
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You don't take your cat with you to go bird shopping. Not because the cat isn't polite, but because he's a cat.
Jim Butcher
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Presumably a movement is more polite than a revolution, and a lot slower.
Linda Ellerbee
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To act in a way both sexist and racist, to maintain one's class privilege, it is only necessary to act in the customary, ordinary, usual, even polite manner.
Joanna Russ
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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
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The common people say, that physicians are the class of people who kill other men in the most polite and courteous manner.
John of Salisbury
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I think that Canadians have an incredible reverence for authority and regard for authority, and I think one of the healthy ways that it's challenged is through questioning it, through the polite hostility of comedy.
Lorne Michaels
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I'll have pot in my home for guests - I'm polite! - but I don't sit around and smoke by myself, ever. Not like I did when I was young.
John Waters
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It's a great group of people here at Texas A&M, and everybody you run into is incredibly polite.
Johnny Manziel
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As far as I have been able to understand, the Japanese seem to keep things close to the vest. Friendly but remote and polite to the point of being invisible. It is in the music, literature, film and art that the Japanese really seem to express themselves.
Henry Rollins
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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.
J. Michael Straczynski
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To use a big word or a foreign word when a small one and a familiar one will answer the same purpose, is a sign of ignorance. Great scholars and writers and polite speakers use simple words.
Joseph Devlin
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We are being at once wisely aware of our own frivolity if we avoid hitting and whacking and prefer 'striking' and 'smiting' talk and chat and prefer 'speech' and 'discourse' well-bred, brilliant, or polite noblemen (visions of snobbery columns in the Press, and fat men on the Riviera) and prefer the 'worthy, brave and courteous men' of long ago.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
Josh Billings
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.., by universal custom, your enemy is never more polite than when he is planning or has planned your destruction.
James Clavell
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