Off with you" is a phrase used by people who lack the curtesy to say something more polite, such as, "if there's nothing else you require I must be going" or "I'm sorry but I'm going to have to ask you to leave, please" or even "excuse me but I believe you have mistaken my home for your own and my valuable belongings for yours and I must ask you to return the items in question to me and leave my home after untying me from this chair, as I'm unable to do it myself, if it's not too much trouble.
When one is polite in German, one lies.
There is this immediate connection, this intimacy when you're acting because there's no room to be polite or shy. Also, as an actor I get to connect with women I've never met before.
Etiquette is the ceremonial code of polite life, more voluminous and minute in each portion of society according to its rank.
I felt rather exhausted, and wondered, rather shocked at my callous thought, why old people were sometimes such a strain. Worse than young children or puppies because one had to be polite.
As youngsters, my mother taught her children that while we might not be the smartest people around, we could be courteous, polite and considerate of others.
I'm big on my kids being conventionally polite, and it works really well for them.
The English are busy; they don't have time to be polite.
The Irish are hearty, the Scotch plausible, the French polite, the Germans good-natured, the Italians courtly, the Spaniards reserved and decorous - the English alone seem to exist in taking and giving offense.
Telling a lie is called wrong. Telling the truth is called right. Except when telling the truth is called bad manners and telling a lie is called polite.
Troubled is a polite word for what I am.
I hate it when people are impolite to waiters or to the valet or the guy in the supermarket. There's no need for that; it doesn't cost anything to be polite.
People give out compliments because it's polite.
Being polite to a person is not a sign of respect for them. It is merely a sign of a good upbringing and a balanced nature.
If a man isn't being nice when you're out, all you have to do is remain polite and then go home early.
Things it is not polite to discuss at the dinner table: politics, religion, and the walking dead.
As a person, I'm polite - I want to please.
And the name of the one shall be Fearfulness. And the name of the other shall be Arrogance. . . Well, clearly you are not Fearfulness, so I suppose you must be Arrogance. ' This was not very polite.
I've never had a meth habit, I don't walk around naked, and unless I'm actively provoked, I'm generally polite and well-spoken.
I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.
