#polite

And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it's third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, it's much more polite. ↗

— Miriam Makeba

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Callousness and insolence bring to bare unanimous social condemnation, while the simple efforts of politeness are admired; even in those who are otherwise despised. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

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My father believed in toughness, honesty, politeness and being on time. All very important lessons. ↗

— Roger Moore

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Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy. ↗

— Christine Keeler

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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination. ↗

— e. e. cummings

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Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet. ↗

— Thelma Ritter

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We will hang you, never fear, Most politely, most politely. ↗

— William Gilbert

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Be polite to all, but intimate with few. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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I don't write polite letters. I don't like to plea-bargain. I like to fight. ↗

— Roy Cohn

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