Polite beggary is too common. [ W. R. Alger ]

She sits tormenting every guest,
Nor gives her tongue one moment's rest,
In phrases battered, stale, and trite,
Which modern ladies call polite. [ Swift ]

Polite literature; arts in a university.

To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise. [ Pope ]

It is a part of good-breeding, that a man should be polite, even to himself. [ J. Paul F. Richter ]

In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the press than the pulpit. [ Goldsmith ]

Etiquette is the ceremonial code of polite life, more voluminous and minute in each portion of society according to its rank. [ J. R. MacCulloch ]

Books are necessary to correct the vices of the polite; but those vices are ever changing, and the antidote should be changed accordingly - should still be new. [ Goldsmith ]

Persons who are very plausible and excessively polite have generally some design upon you, as also religionists who call you "dear" the first time they see you. [ Spurgeon ]