A car to pick me up every day, a chair with my name on it, everybody being very polite... what can you do except sit back and watch it all, try to take it all in?
Charles Dance

A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.
Bryant H. McGill

Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
Ambrose Bierce

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
Robert A. Heinlein

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.
Henry Lawson

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

Balanced is probably what I am, although that's just a polite way to say that you don't do anything very well.
Steve Yzerman

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
Thomas Jefferson

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
Otto von Bismarck

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.
John Yoo

Cost recovery is the polite way of saying, make families pay to educate their children.
Susan George

Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.
Christine Keeler

Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
Sinclair Lewis

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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.
Eugene Levy

I don't write polite letters. I don't like to plea-bargain. I like to fight.
Roy M. Cohn

I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.
Jessica Hagedorn

In Japan, you have no idea what they are saying, and they can't help you either. Nothing makes any sense. They're very polite, but you feel like a joke is being played on you the entire time you're there.
Bill Murray

In polite society one laughs at all the jokes, including the ones one has heard before.
Frank Dane

It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.
Russell Lynes