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

- Eric Clapton

Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them.

- John Barton

Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.

- Jean Kerr

Obviously I'm going to be polite, so nobody has anything to fear from me.

- Judith Martin

Being polite does not mean being mummified.

- Judith Martin

I grew up being taught, 'Do unto others as they would do unto you.' I would get scolded for not being polite.

- Joel Edgerton

Canadians are nice and polite. It's not just a stereotype.

- Justin Trudeau

Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

The last thing I want to do is get togged up, go out and be polite.

- Greg Wise

I've never been afraid to make a polite ask to someone.

- Gerald Chertavian

My ego every day is more and more polite. I tame it.

- Alejandro Jodorowsky

I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.

- Duane Michals

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

- Daniel Clowes

I would hope I was raised polite and charming.

- Douglas Booth

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

- Charles Eastman

I don't want to be polite. I don't think campaigning is polite. That's a disingenuous effort.

- Carl Paladino

My mother always told me it wasn't polite to ask what people make.

- Clint Eastwood

It is not polite for a Russian to interfere in British politics.

- Alexander Lebedev

When telemarketers call me now, I won't get the blow-horn. I'm more polite than the average person.

- Adam DeVine

I hate it when people are impolite to waiters or to the valet or the guy in the supermarket. There's no need for that; it doesn't cost anything to be polite.

- Ashley Madekwe