Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
Thomas Jefferson
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At times, he's polite, thanks the clerk then leaves with the bank's money.
Brian Stanfield
You can't compare a Super Bowl crowd, which tends to be more polite and a little more neutral to that. The Super Bowl only has 7,000 to 8,000 fans for each team.
Lamar Hunt
Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at [Pearl Harbor's] officers' mess [and] are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945.
William Manchester
The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
Malcolm Bradbury
Truthfully, human trafficking is just a polite way to say modern-day slavery.
Cathy Paris
I've had some Christians log on, and I think that's fine if they are polite.
Greg Swartz
The Thais were the most polite, friendly people you can imagine. Anything we needed, they took care of.
Ben Massey
He was not some hysterical crazy person. He was very polite. He had things he wanted to say. He didn't work from any notes or talking points. He had tremendous confidence.
Wendy Sherman
Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet.
Thelma Ritter
You wouldn't know how well she did by her actions. She is a polite, quiet girl and a very hard worker.
Kirk Nauman
[Playing Elwood] makes me want to be as polite as I can be.
Colin Wasmund
People in France are very intrusive when they recognize you. In New York, they are very polite, with quick words, so it's great.
Audrey Tautou
Never ask a woman her age or her weight and never ask a snake handler if he's ever been bitten. It's not polite.
Ken Darnell
If somebody doesn't have the self-awareness and self-respect to conduct themselves in a polite and business-like fashion, then that could be an indication of their lack of ability to be a strong performer.
Mark Greene
I don't have to be the nice guy anymore, I don't have to be polite, I don't have to represent anyone (other than) myself. I won't be sitting there as a council member, I can have my say about things that have gone on. And I will.
Odell Shelton
Art Jones was always a polite and gentlemanly man. He was a fun and gregarious man.
Terry Peters
I make sure I teach more than just basketball. I teach my players to be good people on and off the court. I want them to be polite and open doors for other people. When we enter a restaurant, I want to make sure we leave it clean.
Marlen Ronten
People here are polite and are really open to bikers. It's the most welcoming town I've ever been to. And I've been to a lot of places.
Bob Wellington
The people have been so polite and so nice and so patient. It's a fun thing to do something for someone like this.
Jonathan Wood
Is Justice Scalia, but maybe with a smile and a little more polite and less temperamental.
Michael Gerhardt
Nobody is being accommodating. Our power has gone off and on, our registers have been down. People were polite yesterday, but now? Come on, folks, cut us some slack.
George Brooks
He'll come over and take my trash can out for me. He's just a really good, polite, nice boy.
Judy Crist
[The screening ended with] more than polite applause, ... Well, Nick, I thought it would be pretty good, but I didn't expect to be moved.
Nick Clooney
They all give me lots of respect; they're always very polite. Bless their hearts, they're all good guys.
Lindsay Burrows
The more accurate you are about how others perceive you, the better you fare socially. Think of a person who thinks he's really funny but isn't. He interprets polite laughter as genuine laughter, but everyone is on to him and annoyed by him.
Mark Leary
We've had other males nearly take the door off the hinges getting into the breeding room, but not Bobby. He's always very polite.
Ruth Daniels
She's polite, but she's a little naive. That's what worries me.
Alan Curtis Green
My mom always taught me to be sweet and polite and cross my legs because it's what the guys like. Actually, they like a raunchy girl once in a while.
Tiffani Amber Thiessen
It was a polite habit up until about 10 years ago to hand it to the opposition.
Andrea Vannucci
We will not intervene in any aspect of Palestinian life ... except to convince people in a polite way.
Mahmoud Ramahi
Admiration, n.: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
Ambrose Bierce
He's been polite but persistent. He's enjoyed the Mets, the city and the people, but he can do the math. He knows right now there's no room for him.
Mark Rodgers
In Japan, you have no idea what they are saying, and they can't help you either. Nothing makes any sense. They're very polite, but you feel like a joke is being played on you the entire time you're there.
Bill Murray
If my child is sitting over meal time, it is both polite and practical to feed the sitter, too.
Dd Hellebush
To my knowledge, there's never been a duo of a brash American and a polite Brit and it's kind of an interesting dynamic for a comedy team, ... I think Colin and Kevin could always fall back on that if they have to.
Rupert Holmes
There is a certain challenge to directing an older play. In the '50s, there was a politeness that doesn't exist anymore. For instance, the language is more polite than we would perhaps have today. The challenge is to bring out the emotional depth that exists under that surface.
Rick Snyder
I appreciate the fact that he's elegant and he's polite and has very good manners all things that gay men like but when they read that he gave over $200,000 to Tom DeLay to help elect Republicans, that's an affront.
Christopher Lynn
Tanner is a good kid. He does well in school, he's polite and he practices hard every day. He plays in a lot of tournaments on his own and does well in those.
Tom Willis
He's funny, very good natured. He's got a lot of love in his eyes -- good spirit. He was a good kid -- fun to talk to, very polite.
Christina Criscenzo
Civility sometimes requires polite ruthlessness. Establish that what you prize most is civility.
Jimmy Bise Jr.
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
Sir Winston Churchill
Lou was absolutely fearless, ... He's this charming, polite young man - until you turn the camera on. Then he dives out there without a net. And when he's onscreen, he draws your eye. It's a magnetic thing.
Arie Posin
Girls and women are far less likely to do that. Boys say, 'I don't think that's right.' Who's going to get the better grade? Girls are polite. … That's nothing negative about girls. Girls are doing fine. They should keep doing what they're doing.
William Draves
MONEY, n. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it. An evidence of culture and a passport to polite society. Supportable property.
Ambrose Bierce
Coming back South has brought back many memories of the culture you don't see in the North. People are extremely polite and helpful here.
Olivia Toca
He is a bit of a Casanova really. He's very polite, he's very gentlemanly and he's not a leer or anything like that, but he's definitely got a twinkle in his eye.
Rose Byrne
As soon as I saw her name on the business card, I remembered her. She was friendly, really polite, you know, pleasant.
Jorge Rodriguez
Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
Ambrose Bierce
He's always happy and very polite and kind, and I'd like people to know how talented myself, my associates, family and friends think he is. He writes religious as well as everyday poetry and even some that begin each line with the letters of a person's name.
Lisa Richardson
I can be very polite, but I've found that doesn't always get a result. You have got to bang and thump tables.
Joy Baluch
Everyone is so nice here. But sometimes it looks fake, like there is some kind of hidden law that everyone should be nice and polite.
Lucas Sumantri
We are a polite people. You'll find Chicago to be a very friendly town. There won't be anything physical, but you can expect a little verbal harassment coming your way.
Mike Richter
I doubt there were high fives all around, but I imagine everyone who headed out to sit on the bench understood this was Justice O'Connor's last day. I think there was something more than a polite handshake.
Kermit Hall
The Iraqi air traffic controllers were very polite and very helpful.
Bertrand Piccard
I met with Landry Carr with the U.S. consulate and let him know we really wanted to get this thing moving. I wasn't looking for any favors. I was as polite as I could be and let him know if there was anything we needed to do to speed things up, I was there to help.
John Mozeliak
I think the most polite term that you can use is disarray. The party apparatus seems to have taken a knockdown, if not a knockout punch.
Elliott Stonecipher
I think the most polite term that you can use is disarray ... The party apparatus seems to have taken a knockdown, if not a knock out punch.
Elliott Stonecipher
He was always so pleasant and nice and polite. He was an all-around nice young man.
Elizabeth Lewis
I am the common man, ... I'm polite, I love my family and I play by the rules. And sometimes I get pushed around. That's my lifestyle, and that's what I try to bring to characters.
Eugene Levy
She had gone from famous to infamous to notorious and was now regarded as something of a menace to polite society.
Esther Williams
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