#polite

I had an interview once with some German journalist—some horrible, ugly woman. It was in the early days after the communists—maybe a week after—and she wore a yellow sweater that was kind of see-through. She had huge tits and a huge black bra, and she said to me, ‘It’s impolite; remove your glasses.’ I said, ‘Do I ask you to remove your bra? ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#chanel #communists #designer #fashion #glasses

Especially these days where everything is so polite and so proper, I think that rites of passage are good. ↗

— Emile Hirsch

#especially #everything #good #i #i think

It's a great group of people here at Texas A&M, and everybody you run into is incredibly polite. ↗

— Johnny Manziel

#everybody #great #group #here #incredibly

Tequila. Straight. There's a real polite drink. You keep drinking until you finally take one more and it just won't go down. Then you know you've reached your limit. ↗

— Lee Marvin

#drink #drinking #finally #go #just

I'm a shreddermouf, aren't I?' 'I was afraid of that,' said Tansy. He was going to keep her in his larder until he was hungy again, and then he was going to rip her apart. 'Dis is my lair', said the shreddermouth proudly. 'It's de best lair in Tiratattle.' 'Is it?' said Tansy. 'Oh yes. It's a drainage tunnel. Goes right up to de surface, it does. Lots of storage space. My name's Gulp.' 'Tansy,' said Tansy, deciding not to ask him what he kept in his storage space and wondering whether introductions were quite the thing. ↗

— Elizabeth Kay

#hopeless-situation #humor #introductions #lair #men-eating-monster

Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of things different from the ego. ↗

— Richard M. Weaver

#piety #politeness #rectitude #respect

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

— John Barton

#autobiographical #either #far #i #most

Politeness is organized indifference. ↗

— Paul Valery

#organized #politeness

Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#manners #politeness #respect #respect

Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#answer #been #business #centuries #english