I've learned, I think, to be able to distinguish between the necessary and the unnecessary as far as my limited outside time is concerned. Saying "no" politely is a necessity if one wants to lead any kind of stable life.
Quotes about politely (16 Quotes)
When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.
Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you stretch out your hand, take a portion of it politely. It passes on do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you. So act toward children, so toward a wife, so toward office, so toward wealth.
I find it next to impossible to remain politely silent when people prate to me about the glory of being given another chance to live happily ever after!
Fifty or sixty shooters had already arrived and managed to look studiously bored. I knew a few of them and nodded politely. No one asked me to sit next to them, nor would I have accepted if they had. It's better that way, in case you end up on opposite sides of a fight, and a whole lot safer. Friends can betray you. Strangers can't.
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
We will hang you, never fear, Most politely, most politely.
I rose politely in the club And said, I feel a little bored Will someone take me to a pub'
Franklin told of something which had happened at Lancaster in Pennsylvania at a treaty between the Six Nations and Virginia in 1744. The Virginia commissioners offered to take six Indian boys and educate them at the college in Williamsburg. The Indians, after politely waiting till the next day, declined the offer. Their young men who had gone to college in the northern provinces had come back 'bad runners, ignorant of every means of living in the woods, unable to bear either cold or hunger, knew neither how to build a cabin, take a deer, or kill an enemy, spoke our languages imperfectly, were therefore neither fit for warriors, hunters, or counselors they were totally good for nothing.' But the Indians would take a dozen Virginia boys and educate them properly in the forest.
It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas.
It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.
I respect everyone. I even respect journalists. Responding politely to inane comments by an NBC interviewer, Atlanta Olympics.
I would like to do more dramas when I find a good role that will allow me to politely upset people's expectations of me as a comic actor.
My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could I be alcoholic?
Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.
Always speak politely to an enraged Dragon.