Polite

Famous quotes containing the word polite:

    And anyone is free to condemn me to death
    If he leaves it to nature to carry out the sentence.
    I shall will to the common stock of air my breath
    And pay a death tax of fairly polite repentance.
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    You know, sometimes, when they say you’re ahead of your time, it’s just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing.
    George McGovern (b. 1922)

    Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)