Politest Quotes & Sayings

But are we to accept a form of government which we do not entirely approve of, merely in hopes that it will be administered well? Does not every man know, that nothing is more liable to be abused than power. Power, without a check, in any hands, is tyranny; — Bernard Bailyn

I had to have company
I was made for it, I think
so I made friends with the animals. They are just charming, and they have the kindest disposition and the politest ways; they never look sour, they never let you feel that you are intruding, they smile at you and wag their tail, if they've got one, and they are always ready for a romp or an excursion or anything you want to propose. — Mark Twain

There are no failures, only outcomes. As long as I learn something, I am succeeding. — Tony Robbins

You are the politest man I know, Jake Burnett."
"Had politeness beat into me. — Lorraine Heath

After you've read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmosphere, the odd image or phrase or vivid cameo. — Arthur Smith

Silence was not good. — Rose Wynters

We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms. — Alfred Adler

The great are deceived if they imagine they have appropriated ambition and vanity to themselves. These notable qualities flourish as notably in a country church and churchyard as in the drawing room or in the closet. Schemes have indeed been laid in the vestry, which would hardly disgrace the conclave. Here is a ministry, and here is an opposition. Here are plots and circumventions, parties and factions equal to those which are to be found in courts. Nor are the women here less practiced in the highest feminine arts than their fair superiors in quality and fortune. Here are prudes and coquettes; here are dressing and ogling, falsehood, envy, malice, scandal -- in short everything which is common to the most splendid assembly or politest circle. — Henry Fielding

What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money us! — William Makepeace Thackeray

When it comes to divide an estate, the politest men quarrel. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The worst of marriage is that it makes a woman believe that all other men are just as easy to fool. — H.L. Mencken

Irony is to the high-bred what billingsgate is to the vulgar; and when one gentleman thinks another gentleman an ass, he does not say it point-blank, he implies it in the politest terms he can invent. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master. — Samuel Richardson

I believe in grumbling; it is the politest form of fighting known. — E.W. Howe

Know what being a man's pet means. And if you're ever lucky enough to find yourself with the choice, choose the pasture. — Stacy Overman Morrison

There is a great sense of community within the Montessori classroom, where children of differing ages work together in an atmosphere of cooperation rather than competitiveness. There is respect for the environment and for the individuals within it, which comes through experience of freedom within the community. — Maria Montessori

The wishes we make in the dark have consequences, and the Lord of Mischief will call their reckoning — S. Jae-Jones

Don Lorenzo and 'Master Eccari' fenced pleasantries for a few moments thereafter; Galdo eventually let himself be skewered with the politest possible version of 'Thanks, but piss off. — Scott Lynch

The hype cheapens the hyped, as right things are then made wrong by exaggeration. — Criss Jami

It seems to me that we value individuality, but only to a point. When what sets one person apart from another is beyond our understanding or becomes too much to handle, we dismiss the quirk and the soul that accompanies it to give ourselves the greatest comfort. What does that accomplish? — Kiera Cass

Plato believed that insanity was essential to our nature and assumed that it held esoteric knowledge about who we are. — Michael Greenberg

I have also noted, over the course of our friendship, that his hearing is curiously erratic. He can hear a lizard-bird scratching itself half a mile away, but occasionally seems unable to hear the politest of requests no matter how loudly I shout them at him. — Robert Asprin

Of all mechanics, of all servile handycrafts-men, a gamester is the vilest. But yet, as many of the quality are of the profession, he is admitted amongst the politest company. — John Gay

You look at your child's face, and you don't wonder whose side you're on. You know. That side. — Ted Kosmatka

I've no desire to do one of those 50-mile races like the Comrades or anything like that. — Paula Radcliffe