Top Polite Quotes
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
e. e. cummings
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
It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.
Wyndham Lewis
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
Sinclair Lewis
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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld 
62% of people like this quote
Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
e. e. cummings
62% of people like this quote
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
59% of people like this quote
It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.
Wyndham Lewis
58% of people like this quote
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
Sinclair Lewis
57% of people like this quote
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
56% of people like this quote
The numbers are a catalyst that can help turn raving madmen into polite humans.
Philip J. Davis
56% of people like this quote
Popular Polite Authors
Francois de La RochefoucauldFriedrich NietzscheThomas JeffersonWinston ChurchillAmbrose BierceGeorge SantayanaHenry MillerBryant H. McGillCarl SandburgFran LebowitzWynton MarsalisRobert A. HeinleinEdgar Watson HoweMartha BeckSusan George
John BartonMatthew Henrye. e. cummingsChristine KeelerOtto von BismarckCharles EastmanKurt MasurJohn YooSteve YzermanJean KerrMiriam MakebaJessica HagedornFrank DaneTed KoppelSinclair Lewis
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