Polite Quotations | Page 2

I make sure I teach more than just basketball. I teach my players to be good people on and off the court. I want them to be polite and open doors for other people. When we enter a restaurant, I want to make sure we leave it clean.

People in day-to-day life tend to skim the surface of things and be polite and careful, and that's not the language I speak. I like talking about feelings, fears and memories, anguish and joy, and I find it in music.

If you're going to kill the animal it seems only polite to use the whole thing.

such is the effect of true politeness, that it banishes all restraint and embarassment.

Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that GE has made such and such billions off the war in Iraq by selling arms or that Murdoch is a right-wing activist with a clear stake in who wins and who taxes his profits the least.

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

That roguish and cheerful vice, politeness.

There are words to describe her, my dear, but one does not repeat them in polite company.

A community where everyone is a ruthless murderer, with handy access to death-dealing devices, is a very polite community.

For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.