#polite

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

— Daniel Clowes

#other #overly #people #polite #sort

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

Punctuality is the politeness of kings. ↗

— Louis XVIII

#politeness #punctuality

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'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society. ↗

— Jessica Hagedorn

#considered #i #myself #person #polite

Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods that go beyond polite conversation. ↗

— John Yoo

#congress #conversation #definition #go #infliction

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

I've had fans come and knock on my door. I'm usually polite, but I'm usually very direct and say, 'It's not cool that you come here uninvited.' ↗

— Gary Allan

#cool #direct #door #fans #had

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

— Robert A. Heinlein

#me #non #politeness #sine