A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

The suit is the polite taming, the socialising, the neutering, of riding and military kit. Those pointless buttons on the cuff were moved from lateral to vertical.

Adam DeVine
Adam DeVine

When telemarketers call me now, I won't get the blow-horn. I'm more polite than the average person.

Adam Grant
Adam Grant

Being a nice person is about courtesy: you're friendly, polite, agreeable, and accommodating. When people believe they have to be nice in order to give, they fail to set boundaries, rarely say no, and become pushovers, letting others walk all over them.

Adam Grant
Adam Grant

Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.

Adam Grant
Adam Grant

Agreeable people are warm and friendly. They're nice; they're polite. You find a lot of them in Canada.

Adam McKay
Adam McKay

Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that GE has made such and such billions off the war in Iraq by selling arms or that Murdoch is a right-wing activist with a clear stake in who wins and who taxes his profits the least.

Adriana Lima
Adriana Lima

A man needs to be polite, not just to me but to everyone. I watch that. How does he treat the waiter? How does he treat the coat-check girl? How does he treat the driver?

Alejandro Jodorowsky
Alejandro Jodorowsky

My ego every day is more and more polite. I tame it.

Alexander Lebedev
Alexander Lebedev

It is not polite for a Russian to interfere in British politics.

Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope

True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.