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Tag Name "Polite" (304)

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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 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
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When five up express, as is polite, regret at laying a stymie, but rejoice in your heart.
Charles Walter Simpson
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One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else.
Diane Setterfield
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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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The most exquisite words and finest strokes of an author are those which very often appear the most doubtful and exceptionable to a man who wants a relish for polite learning and they are those which a sour undistinguishing critic generally attacks with the greatest violence.
Joseph Addison
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Greatness starts with the replacement of hatred with polite disdain.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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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
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It's impossible to expect polite behavior from people who've never witnessed it.
Kathleen Parker
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Being polite is not only the right way to respond to people but also the easiest. Life is so filled with unavoidable conflict that I see no reason to promote more confrontations.
Dean Koontz
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A yawn may not be polite, but at least it is an honest opinion.
Voltaire
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I have never been able to understand why pigeon-shooting at Hurlingham should be refined and polite, while a rat-killing match in Whitechapel is low.
Thomas Huxley
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Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
Ambrose Bierce
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Canadians are more polite when they are being rude than Americans are when they are being friendly.
Edgar Friedenberg
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Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The most clever and polite are content with only seeming attentive while we perceive in their mind and eyes that at the very time they are wandering from what is said and desire to return to what they want to say.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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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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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
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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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And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it's third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, it's much more polite.
Miriam Makeba
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I was stark raving mad, and my family was too polite to mention it. That's what living with the Yamanis does to people. They get so well-mannered they won't mention you're crazy.
Tamora Pierce
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A nasty letter or a sarcastic one can make you righteously angry, but what can you do about a polite letter of rejection? Nothing, really, except cry.
E. L. Konigsburg
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Minnesota is a state of public-spirited and polite people, where you can get a good cappucino and eat Thai food and find any book you want and yet live on a quiet tree-lined street with a backyard and send your kids to public school. When a state this good hits the jackpot, it can only be an inspiration to everybody.
Garrison Keillor
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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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