#polite

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

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#complaisance #faith #freedom #neither #nor

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

I seem to have very polite fans, not fanatical ones. ↗

— Natalie Imbruglia

#fans #i #ones #polite #seem

Politeness is the flower of humanity. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#humanity #politeness

When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel'. ↗

— Ronald Knox

#bigot #corrected #does #feel #i

Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach. ↗

— Ted Koppel

#finds #form #howling #medicine #our

It is something that most parents hope for in life: That their children will be moderately successful, polite, decent human beings. Anything on top of that is something you have no right to hope for, but we all do. ↗

— Jerry Kramer

#beings #children #decent #hope #human

Polite conversation is rarely either. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#conversation #either #polite #rarely