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

It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.
Wyndham Lewis

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

Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at Pearl Harbor's officers' mess and are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945.
William Manchester

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
e. e. cummings

Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.
Jean Kerr

Men of polite learning and a liberal education.
Matthew Henry

Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them.
John Barton

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.
Tiffani Amber Thiessen

No language is rude that can boast polite writers.
Aubrey Beardsley

No one who is at all acquainted with the Indian in his home can deny that we are a polite people.
Charles Eastman

Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet.
Thelma Ritter

Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
Ted Koppel

People in France are very intrusive when they recognize you. In New York, they are very polite, with quick words, so it's great.
Audrey Tautou

Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change.
Walter Isaacson

Polite conversation is rarely either.
Fran Lebowitz

Polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing and solving our real problems.
Martha Beck

Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Sometimes if you have very confident people, you have to tell them please, be polite, there are other players are good enough as you and you should never speak out of an orchestra.
Kurt Masur

Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.
Benny Goodman