Polite Language Quotes

When you have to write a letter, you're automatically put into a state of composure and a kind of formality. You can't help it. So, no, I never once got a letter where someone just popped off at me.

Y'all have no idea how many times I say, 'Yes, ma'am.'

I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. There are worse things in life than being called a Lady.

You should not say it is not good. You should say you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.

The public discourse online is not done through the polite language of debate.

Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.

When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel'.

Fair words never hurt the tongue.

It has all been most interesting.

You can say, 'Can I use your bathroom?' and nobody cares. But if you ask, 'Can I use the plop-plop machine?' it always breaks the conversation.

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.

I said you LOOKED like an egg, Sir. And some eggs are very pretty, you know.

Give me the effing phone, Strider grumbled, opening his palm and waving his fingers. Effing? William laughed with genuine amusement. You ever realize how polite you get when you're hammered? And you know what they say. A man's true charactor is revealed when he's toasted. So you gotta face facts, man. You're a closet gentlmen. Loser! The heck I am! Even Paris laughed at that.

Fair speech breaks never bone.

Matt's brother and the blond cook spent a good portion of last season tangling the sheets. Historically, said cook tangled many other sheets with dexterity and aplomb." "Aplomb" "It's a polite way to say she banged often, well and without too much discrimination." "That also sounded polite." "I was raised well.

I don't use coarse language very often. I have a larger vocabulary than that.

A gilded No is more satisfactory than a dry Yes.

Betty White is probably a very nice woman.

Stately, kindly, lordly friend Condescend Here to sit by me.

If doubtful whether to end with "yours faithfully," or "yours truly," or "yours most truly," &c. (there are at least a dozen varieties, before you reach "yours affectionately"), refer to your correspondent's last letter, and make your winding-up at least as friendly as his: in fact, even if a shade more friendly, it will do no harm!

I think calling me 'full-figured' is just rude.

You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.

There are words to describe her, my dear, but one does not repeat them in polite company.