Bryant H. McGill Quotes

Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.

God loveth not the speaking ill of any one in public.

I don't aim to offend.

At this stage of my life I would rather try and have some small impact within a company and suffer through those things than make such a big stink that nobody can trust to work with you. It's very important in an environment of a big institution that people don't feel threatened that you're going to expose them in any way.

The greater the controversy, the more you need manners.

It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.

For years, I advised George Steinbrenner to get out of town because he dishonored my hometown with his bullying and bombast.

I don't think you should go around talking trash about people because I think that's how you get your hat handed to you.

Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

He who slings mud generally loses ground.

The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.

Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

I never speak ill of dead people or live judges.

Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.

I have no intention of offending somebody who writes a weekly column.

Be polite. Write diplomatically. Even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

It does not behoove the dignity of this Senate to smear any individual.

It is impolite to criticize your host; it is militarily stupid to criticize your allies.

Minimum information given with maximum politeness.

To use bitter words, when kind words are at hand, Is like picking unripe fruit when the ripe fruit is there.

Listen, anybody that knows me knows I'm not disrespectful.

I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.

I don't know where, or by whom, Judge Wapner was raised, but my parents taught me, when you don't have something nice to say about someone, say nothing.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.