Top Politely Quotes
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I've learned, I think, to be able to distinguish between the necessary and the unnecessary as far as my limited outside time is concerned. Saying "no" politely is a necessity if one wants to lead any kind of stable life.
Richard Chamberlain
Always speak politely to an enraged Dragon.
Steven Brust
I would like to do more dramas when I find a good role that will allow me to politely upset people's expectations of me as a comic actor.
Ben Stiller
My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could I be alcoholic?
Betty Ford
William Gilbert 
Mercedes McCambridge 
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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld 
62% of people like this quote
I've learned, I think, to be able to distinguish between the necessary and the unnecessary as far as my limited outside time is concerned. Saying "no" politely is a necessity if one wants to lead any kind of stable life.
Richard Chamberlain
56% of people like this quote
I would like to do more dramas when I find a good role that will allow me to politely upset people's expectations of me as a comic actor.
Ben Stiller
53% of people like this quote
My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could I be alcoholic?
Betty Ford
53% of people like this quote
It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
53% of people like this quote
I find it next to impossible to remain politely silent when people prate to me about the glory of being given another chance to live happily ever after!
Mercedes McCambridge
51% of people like this quote
We will hang you, never fear, Most politely, most politely.
William Gilbert
48% of people like this quote
It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas.
Edward Bond
48% of people like this quote
When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.
Calvin Trillin
43% of people like this quote