#polite

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

I would say L.A. is more polite than London - it's a very careful place. People talk a lot in code. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#code #i #london #lot #more

When your family is twice as weird as normal, you have to be twice as polite to authority, because authority hates weird. ↗

— Rosemary Clement-Moore

#politeness #family

It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility, is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire. For politeness is like a counter--an avowedly false coin, with which it is foolish to be stingy. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#politeness #rudeness #life

For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#me #non #politeness #sine

Democracy was supposed to champion freedom of speech, and yet the simple rules of table decorum could clamp down on the rights their forefathers had fought and died for. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#democracy #ettiquette #freedom #freedom-of-speech #funny

There is this immediate connection, this intimacy when you're acting because there's no room to be polite or shy. Also, as an actor I get to connect with women I've never met before. ↗

— Jessica Chastain

#actor #also #because #before #connect

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#kill #man #nothing #polite #you

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

#call #called #changed #countries #developed

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

— Roger Moore

#believed #father #honesty #important #lessons