Politely Quotations

I was raised in Duluth, Minnesota, where you never say that you're cold, or that you're suffering, and you listen politely to people, even if you disagree with them completely. Then you say passive-aggressive things later.

It's, like, bigots want to embrace me, and I politely take their arms from around my neck. I don't share their views - never have.

Words change over time. 'Condescending,' for instance, was once a good thing to be. It meant that a person was willing to interact politely with people of lower social ranks. In Jane Austen's world, a lady praised for her condescension was receiving a sincere compliment.

We're not defaming AOL or the corporation or anybody that does business with them, ... We are asking them politely to stop. And we're just doing it in a creative way.

Our security staff will be monitoring entrances, but all of our employees have been trained in how to politely approach someone and ask them not to smoke.

Some have said we must not act until the threat is imminent, ... Since when have terrorists and tyrants announced their intentions, politely putting us on notice before they strike?

Under the auspices of the (International Polar Year), to go out and prospect for fossil fuels, to put it politely - it seems ironic if not deeply misjudged.

Although Thales politely left the door open to a subsequent deal with EADS, which could bring Thales to its satellite business, we believe this is unlikely.

It's just like with people. You're going to get along better working with them - human or equine - if you ask politely rather than demand that they do things.

It's the genteel anti-Semitism of the time. Jews were politely shut out of the country clubs and the higher echelons of WASP culture.

It sounded a bit like misplaced larceny to me. We politely declined their offer.

The family making this claim were constantly taking pictures of me. And I politely asked them to stop, so that the people I was with would not be bothered.

If you do not want to part with what you have, do not lie and claim that you have nothing, but decline politely saying that circumstances or your own desires prevent you.