#polite

When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#always #better #chinese #chinese food #comes

Balanced is probably what I am, although that's just a polite way to say that you don't do anything very well. ↗

— Steve Yzerman

#am #anything #balanced #i #i am

Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. ↗

— Stephen King

#norms #politeness #reading #society #writing

When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine that he is polite all the time. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#man #polite #sell #something #time

Men of polite learning and a liberal education. ↗

— Matthew Henry

#learning #liberal #liberal education #men #polite

Always speak politely to an enraged Dragon. ↗

— Steven Brust

#dragon #enraged #politely #speak

We had come here to have a break from thoughts and the hard work that came with the constant interaction with idiots. Or at least people we considered idiots because they were not mind readers and we had to, patiently, use polite words to explain things that we were thinking when really inside we were fighting the urge to take their heads in our hands and softly and repeatedly thud their foreheads off the wall. ↗

— Cecelia Ahern

#life

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

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

Politeness is the poison of collaboration. ↗

— Edwin Land

#poison #politeness