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Polite Conversation Quotes

Fran Lebowitz quote: "Polite conversation is rarely either."
Polite conversation is rarely either. Fran Lebowitz
Samuel Beckett quote: "I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was..."
I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation. Samuel Beckett
but all day long I would be training myself to think, to understand, to criticize, to know myself; I was seeking for the absolute truth: this preoccupation did not exactly encourage polite conversation. Simone de Beauvoir
I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes. Nadia Giosia
Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods that go beyond polite conversation. John Yoo
But he does insist on a conversation. Goddamn it! Why can't people just do what I want them to do and be gone? It's a worldwide conspiracy to make me be polite when I don't want to be. Elizabeth Wurtzel
The host took care to produce one or another of these whenever the current subjects seemed about used up, so that the conversation gathered new life and at the same time steered clear of political arguments, which are hindersome to both ingestion and digestion. Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
This is exactly why Patrick and I chose not to have children." he muttered. "So we would never have to have conversations like this. Andy yet...here I am?"If you could answer the question," I said as politely as I could, "that would be great. I really don't want to have a freaky demon baby, and I can't imagine John wants one, either Meg Cabot
The almost egregiously English couple, Cedric and Rosamund Chailey, had slipped quietly away when the conversation turned to God. It had not seemed polite to be present when anything so American was being discussed. Michael Frayn
There are things that are not spoken about in polite society. Very quickly in most conversations you'll reach a moment where someone goes, 'Oh, that's a bit heavy,' or 'Eew, disgusting.' And literature is a place where that stuff goes; where people whisper to each other across books, the writer to the reader. I think that stops you feeling lonely? in the deeper sense, lonely. Alain de Botton
Arundhati Roy quote: "Neither question nor answer was meant as anything more than a..."
Neither question nor answer was meant as anything more than a polite preamble to conversation. Arundhati Roy
We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information. Benjamin Franklin
James Stockdale quote: "I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross..."
I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven't. James Stockdale
The critical importance of honest journalism and a free flowing, respectful national conversation needs to be had in our country. But it is being buried as collateral damage in a war whose battles include political correctness and ideological orthodoxy. Juan Williams
Armstrong Williams quote: "In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual..."
In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations. Armstrong Williams

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