Politeness quotes

Wanda, do you have any idea what it's like being English? Being so correct all the time, being so stifled by this dread of, of doing the wrong thing, of saying to someone "are you married?" and hearing "my wife left me this morning", or saying, uh, "do you have children?" and being told they all burned to death on Wednesday. You see, Wanda,... (continue)(continue reading)
John Marwood Cleese - Archie Leach

The Lord said: "do whatever you have to do". And he didn't say "Joe, be polite".
Morgan Freeman - Principal Joe Clark

Aunt Lucy said: "If we're kind and polite, the world will be right."
Ben Whishaw - Paddington

- Juror #11: I beg pardon...
- Juror #10: "I beg pardon?" What are you so polite about?
- Juror #11: For the same reason you are not: it's the way I was brought up.
George Voskovec - Juror 11
Ed Begley - Juror 10

“- Archer: Greetings. I am Archer, emissary of the Gorgonites.
- Alan Abernathy: Awfully polite for a monster.”
Frank Langella - Archer
Gregory Smith - Alan Abernathy

We can't even say "lesbian" anymore, it's "women in comfortable shoes”.
Robin Williams - Adrian Cronauer

“I brought my own pillow so I don't get my spit all over yours.”
Mason Gamble - Dennis Mitchell

“- Cliff: This Costume Killer does horrible, horrible things. Injects his victims with window cleaner, puts weird costumes on 'em, puts plastic bags over their heads, and asphyxiates them.
- Max: No you're right, there's nothing polite about him.”
Ronald Francis Perlman - Cliff
Arye Gross - Max

- Marianne: At least she can escape Fanny, which is more than any of us is able.
- Elinor Dashwood: You do your best. You've not said a word to her for a week.
- Marianne: I have. I've said "yes" and "no".

Emma Thompson - Elinor Dashwood
Kate Winslet - Marianne Dashwood

“- Darius Kinkaid: Motherfucker, I will bust a cap in your ass, if you don't give up that wheel.
- Michael Bryce: Have you ever said please or thank you?
- Darius Kinkaid: Please, motherfucker!
- Michael Bryce: Why are we always yelling?”
Samuel L. Jackson - Darius Kincaid
Ryan Reynolds - Michael Bryce

“We're Werewolves, not Swear-Wolves.”

Rhys Darby - Anton

“I gotta admit you've been really polite by staying out of my way. But you ain't been honest. See, I figure it's not what a person says, it's what they think. So, in my mind, you've been walking around here calling me a nigger in you head. Am I right?”

Omar Epps - Malik Williams

“They still hate and fear us, its just harder to see because they're more polite about it.”

Jennifer Lawrence - Raven

“- Junior Healy: Dad, can we go? These people are real idiots.
- Aron Burger: Excuse me, Your Highness. I didn't realize that simple little me and my simple little family weren't good enough for your high and mighty tastes. Hey, I should go and slip on my silk tuxedo and then we can trot out the champagne and the escargots.”
Michael Oliver - Junior Healy
Alan Blumenfeld - Aron Burger

“I was raised to be super polite.”
Paul Weitz

“- Ariadne: My subconscious seems polite enough.
- Arthur: Well wait, it'll turn ugly. No one wants to feel someone else messing around their mind.”
Ellen Page - Ariadne
Joseph Gordon-Levitt - Arthur

“Just because we're robbing a bank doesn't mean there's no reason not to be polite.”
Colin Farrell - Jesse James

“- Tom Stansfield: I appreciate all your help, but could you make sure that your friends stay out of the house?
- Audrey Bennett: All of them or just the colored guy?
- Tom Stansfield: No, all of them.
- Audrey Bennett: Oh, that's smart. That way the colored guy won't take it personal.”
Ashton Kutcher - Tom Stansfield
Molly Shannon - Audrey Bennett

“- Phoebe: I'm going to get a coffee. Anybody want anything?
- Monica: I'll have a latte.
- Ross: I'll have a blueberry muffin, with a decaf.
- Chandler: I'll have a bagel with a little...
- Phoebe: You know, I was just being polite.”
Lisa Kudrow - Phoebe Buffay
Courteney Cox - Monica Geller
David Schwimmer - Dr. Ross Geller
Matthew Perry - Chandler Bing

“Max is like a little dog. He's always sniffing around where it's not polite.”

Maggie Smith - Lily Marlowe

- Arthur: Pelagius told me once: "There is no worse death than the end of hope".
- Guinevere: You and I are not the polite people that live in poems. We are blessed and cursed by our times.
Clive Owen - Arthur
Keira Knightley - Guinevere

“- Baby: Earl Crest, don't you know it ain't polite to stare?
- Earl Crest: Well, Baby, it's only natural for a man to stare when he sees the prettiest gal west of Mississippi.
- Baby: Just west?”
Jaime King - Baby
Joshua Carter Jackson - Earl Crest

“I love robbing the English, they're so polite.”
Kevin Kline - Otto

“One day you're gonna be nice to me. We may both be dead and buried, but you're gonna be nice - at least civil.”

Ossie Davis - Da Mayor

“If you can't be polite to your guests, you have to sit at the kiddies' table.”
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Hannibal Lecter