A woman who knew her own mind and scorned the conventions of polite society. We were going to get along just fine.

Lyall had spent centuries nibbling about the great layered cake that was polite society while Lord Akeldama acted the part of the frosting on its top.

There are words to describe her, my dear, but one does not repeat them in polite company.

When youre a new person and a new idea, you get invited to all these different things, and everybody wants a piece of you. And you want to be polite and say yes to everything, but it gets dangerous

What Americans value and strive for is straight talking, plain saying. They don’t go in for ambiguity or dissembling, the etiquette of hidden meaning, the skill of the socially polite lie

Because Cards’ fans are the most knowledgeable and loyal in all of baseball, they booed almost reluctantly, polite as booing goes, what would have passes as a standing ovation in Philly.

Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not to be stunted, if there is to be room for healthy growth.

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

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

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

Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve economic freedom for the average man, which will give his political freedom reality.

Unless we do things in this country to slow down our population, slow down our birth control, provide better water for people, provide power for people, we’re gonna find out that the next wars are not going to be fought over diamonds, gold and political things.

Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must — at that moment — become the center of the universe.

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

I want someone honest, someone who’s very sweet to my family and friends, and polite to the other people around me.

I think we should all focus on who we are, what we want to do, and do it. That is my way. I don’t know why anyone would want to do that politics stuff.

I think our politicians could learn a lot from Mandela.

If somebody’s dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they’re going to have to take what they get.

Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That’s the only way you can get elected.

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

Pantheism is only a polite form of atheism.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So, I just fought everybody

T stands for being nice. T stands for manners. T stands for being polite.