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  • The old adage that polite conversation should not include talk of politics or religion is understandable because both subjects are so heavily laden with emotion that discussion can quickly turn to shouting. Blood is shed over politics, religion and the two in combination.

    Blood   Two   Emotion  
    "Faith and Politics: How the 'Moral Values' Debate Divides America and How to Move Forward Together". Book by John C. Danforth (p. 215), 2006.
  • …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.

  • Democracy isn't solely about polite conversations in parliaments. It needs to be continually refreshed with raw passions, anger and ideals.

    Geoff Mulgan (2006). “Good and Bad Power: The Ideals and Betrayals of Government”
  • He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

    Food   Men   Oysters  
    1738 Polite Conversation, dialogue 2.
  • The vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation. What would be base, or even obscene, to the obscene, becomes illustrious, spoken in a new connexion of thought.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.209, Harvard University Press
  • I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.

    Samuel Beckett (1967). “Stories & Texts for Nothing”, p.62, Grove Press
  • Beside him a tiny elderly woman was leaning on a cane, studying him with curiosity. Since good manners seemed to require that he speak to her, Jon cast about for some sort of polite conversation pertinent to the occasion. “I hate funerals, don’t you?” He said. “I rather like them,” she said smugly. “At my age, I regard each funeral I attend as a personal triumph, because I was not the guest of honor.

    Hate   Elderly   Funeral  
    Judith McNaught (2003). “Paradise”, p.52, Simon and Schuster
  • I hate polite conversation. I hate it when people stand around and go, "Hi, how are you?" I hate words that don't have any reason or meaning. Also I hate it when people smoke in elevators and closed in places. It's just so rude.

    Hate   People   Rude  
    "Madonna Quotes" by Jone Johnson Lewis, www.thoughtco.com. May 2, 2017.
  • 'Tis happy for him that his Father was born before him.

    "Parodies, Hoaxes, Mock Treatises: Polite Conversation, Directions to Servants and Other Works".
  • 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.

    Pain   Law   Definitions  
  • Polite conversation is rarely either.

    Fran Lebowitz (1994). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, Vintage
  • 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.

    Nuts   Tomatoes   Grew Up  
  • Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow.

  • There was a nice dilemma. How does one interject into a polite conversation, "By the way, in case you're ever interested, I do have a penise."?

    Nice   Doe   Way  
  • I think the first prerequisite to civilization is an ability to make polite conversation.

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