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Tag Name "Polite" (304)

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What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle.
Stephen King
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An excuse is a polite rejection. Men are not afraid of 'ruining the friendship.
Greg Behrendt
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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
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Even in half demon hunter clothes, Clary thought, he looked like the kind of boy who'd come over your house to pick you up for a date and be polite to your parents and nice to your pets. Jace on the other hand, looked like the kind of boy who'd come over your house and burn it down just for kicks.
Cassandra Clare
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Was [Adolf Hitler] rude to me? Never. He was always polite and well-mannered.
Gretl Braun
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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
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You think a student leaves each week because they are out of the academy. This is just a cover up to hide serious injury that has occured! Malachi has only one ear and is now wearing one of those joke rubber ones - it's very noticeable but people are too polite to say!
David Sneddon
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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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And I think because there is an essence of me that cares about other people and what other people think then that then makes me seem very sweet and polite.
Renee O'Connor
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Curvy is just a polite way of saying fat.
Hannah Simone
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There is this immediate connection, this intimacy when you're acting because there's no room to be polite or shy. Also, as an actor I get to connect with women I've never met before.
Jessica Chastain
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It is something that most parents hope for in life: That their children will be moderately successful, polite, decent human beings. Anything on top of that is something you have no right to hope for, but we all do.
Jerry Kramer
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People pretend to be nice, people pretend to be smooth, and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance, because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.
Vincent Cassel
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I wish my nose was smaller and that I was a little taller. I also had this perennial pimple problem, so I felt people were just being polite when they said I was beautiful.
Madhuri Dixit
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Marlee, what are you doing? Get under a tent before you burn your skin. She gave me a polite smile. I'm happy here. No, really, I said, putting a hand around her arm. You'll look like my hair.
Kiera Cass
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But I don't want to be fine, not if it means she's going to let go of my hand not if it means we're going to go back to being polite strangers.
Tabitha Suzuma
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War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war.
Leo Tolstoy
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With the movies, people are not going to wait around. The deadline is a deadline. In publishing it's more a polite suggestion.
David Benioff
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And the name of the one shall be Fearfulness. And the name of the other shall be Arrogance... Well, clearly you are not Fearfulness, so I suppose you must be Arrogance.' This was not very polite.
Susanna Clarke
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Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.
Ambrose Bierce
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...Everyone had to eat, but eating people wasn't polite.
Kim Harrison
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I am an incorrigible devotee to solitude, and am never so cheerful, I believe, or so unruffled by small difficulties as when I'm alone. There's a sort of obligation to be polite and pleasant to yourself when nobody else is round.
Susan Hale
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When thanksgiving is filled with true meaning and is not just the formality of a polite 'thank you,' it is the recognition of dependence.
Billy Graham
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An armed society is a polite society.
Robert A. Heinlein
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