#polite

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#friendship #mechanism #oil #politeness #refined

I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes. ↗

— Nadia Giosia

#chopped #conversation #family #grew #i

Comedy isn't polite and it isn't correct and it isn't accurate, even. It's just a mess. So that's the way that I approach it. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#approach #comedy #correct #even #i

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

— Frank Dane

#heard #including #jokes #laughs #ones

The numbers are a catalyst that can help turn raving madmen into polite humans. ↗

— Philip J. Davis

#help #humans #into #madmen #numbers

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man’s cruelty and baseness. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#courtesy #manners #politeness #art

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

#allow #comic #dramas #expectations #find

The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness. ↗

— Marguerite Gardiner

#conscience #escort #flexible #inflexible #politeness

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

— Susan George

#cost #educate #families #make #pay

Politeness is the poison of collaboration. ↗

— Edwin Land

#poison #politeness