polite quotes

What a polite game tennis is. The chief word in it seems to be 'sorry'and admiration of each other's play crosses the net as frequently as the ball.

- SirJ(ames) M(atthew) Barrie
Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.

- Malcolm Stanley Bradbury
  Stepping Westward, bk.2, ch.5.

Democracy is not a polite employer† The only way out of elective office is to get sick or die or get kicked out.

- Herbert Clark Hoover
  The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover, vol.2.

To rest, the cushion and soft Dean invite, Who never mentions Hell to ears polite.

- Alexander Pope
Epistles to Several Persons,'To Lord Burlington', l.149^50.

The French are polite, but it is often mere ceremonious politeness. A Russian imbues his polite things with a heartiness that compels belief in their sincerity.

- Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens Twain
  The Innocents Abroad.