Polite
Smooth; polished.
Smooth and refined in behavior or manners; well bred; courteous; complaisant; obliging; civil.
Characterized by refinement, or a high degree of finish; as, polite literature.
To polish; to refine; to render polite.
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Polite Quotations
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
Winston Churchill
Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
Thomas Jefferson
Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
Friedrich Nietzsche
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
Robert A. Heinlein
The concert is a polite form of self induced torture.
Henry Miller
Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
e. e. cummings
Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
Ambrose Bierce
Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.
Jean Kerr
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.
George Santayana
Polite Translations
polite in Dutch is beschaafd, wellevend, welgemanierd
polite in Finnish is kohtelias
polite in French is courtois, poli
polite in Hungarian is udvarias
polite in Italian is educato
polite in Portuguese is polido
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