Definition of Polite

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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

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
Thomas Jefferson

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
Winston Churchill

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

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
e. e. cummings

The concert is a polite form of self induced torture.
Henry Miller

Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
Ambrose Bierce

Polite conversation is rarely either.
Fran Lebowitz

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
Otto von Bismarck

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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