George Washington Quotes

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

As regards personal relationships I cannot say that I had any particularly personal intercourse with anyone.

I'd rather kiss my best friend than kiss some random guy.

Perhaps the greatest rudenesses of our time come not from the callousness of strangers, but from the solicitousness of intimates who believe that their frank criticisms are always welcome, and who feel free to "be themselves" with those they love, which turns out to mean being their worst selves, while saving their best behavior for strangers.

I like the idea of not everything happening between two human beings to be everyone's property.

There are things that directors know about me that people shouldn't know. But everyone's really different. I've worked with women who I've never wanted to tell anything about myself to, and I've worked with guys who have been pouring wells of emotion. So emotional availability is not a gender-specific thing.

I think, especially in our business we meet a lot of people, and sometimes you spend so much time being nice to strangers, and so, you know, keeping a clear head and just being nice to each other. And that's all the advice I can give.

I am not somebody who likes to give advice, or anything like that, unless it's my closest friends or family.

The counter-argument would be, so what if my sexual relationships are superficial, one can still have satisfying and rewarding relationships with friends, or parents, or siblings, or whatever.

I like to keep my personal life private. I did read one of those stories, and it made it seem like just because I don't go out and I'm not the subject of tabloid photography, I've never had a relationship in my life, like if a relationship isn't documented by a picture, it doesn't exist. I don't want to talk about it.

As a person, I'm incredibly overfamiliar. I have to be careful what I say!

I wasn't a one-on-one type of guy.

I simply value Arthur Capel friendship. And even so, he knows very little about me.

We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.

The most familiar and intimate habitudes, connections, friendships, require a degree of good-breeding both to preserve and cement them.

It's hard for me to pry with people I know.

the delicacy that respects a friend's silence is one of the charms of life.

There will just always be a distance between you and the people around you. Now, [Hillary Clinton] can clearly emotionally connect with her intimates within the zone of trust. It's just the wall outside the zone of trust is so impermeable.

I believe in courtesy, the ritual by which we avoid hurting other people's feelings by satisfying our own egos.

Reserve is the truest expression of respect towards those who are its objects.

I don't like sleeping with people I really love. I don't want to sleep with them because sex cannot last, but affection can last forever.

What would the world be like if people said whatever they were thinking, all the time, whenever it came to them? How long would a blind date last? About 13 seconds, I think. Oh, sorry, your rear end is too big. That's ok, your breath stinks anyway. See you later.

Nice manners are the secret keys to the universe.

We do not tell old friends beneath our roof-tree that they are an offence to the eyesight.

Almost every man we meet requires some civility; requires to be humored; - he has some fame, some talent, some whim of religion or philanthropy in his head that is not to be questioned, and which spoils all conversation with him. But a friend is a sane man who exercises not my ingenuity, but me.