#polite

In England I am always madam; I arrived too late to ever be a miss. In New York I have only been madamed once, by the doorman at the Carlyle Hotel. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#form-of-address #formality #london #madam #miss

I'm okay. Nobody's bothering me. Everyone's very kind, and very polite. I don't feel like my whole life changed. ↗

— Berenice Bejo

#changed #everyone #feel #i #kind

Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#hypocrisy #most #politeness

I've learned, I think, to be able to distinguish between the necessary and the unnecessary as far as my limited outside time is concerned. Saying "no" politely is a necessity if one wants to lead any kind of stable life. ↗

— Richard Chamberlain

#any #as far as #between #concerned #distinguish

The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don't want to be. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#being #celebrity #i #polite #suppose

I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people. ↗

— Daniel Clowes

#other #overly #people #polite #sort

A car to pick me up every day, a chair with my name on it, everybody being very polite... what can you do except sit back and watch it all, try to take it all in? ↗

— Charles Dance

#being #car #chair #day #every

No one who is at all acquainted with the Indian in his home can deny that we are a polite people. ↗

— Charles Eastman

#deny #his #home #indian #people

My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could I be alcoholic? ↗

— Betty Ford

#behaved #bottle #could #finished #how

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