My mom is the No. 1 person who has taught me to be courteous towards women, to always be respectful and polite to them, and to always lead with your heart.
I am a very frank person and that's how I hope to remain. I don't like to pretend to be polite. What you see is what you get.
In the first place you can be so absolutely honest and so absolutely wrong at the same time that I think it is better to be a combination of cautious and polite
The audience was swell. They were so polite they covered their mouths when they yawned.
Always be polite to a dragon. It's harder than it sounds. Dragon etiquette is incredibly complicated, and if you make a mistake, the dragon eats you.
A question is a polite way of demanding something.
The trouble is, if you go too far towards being polite, the label that applies is "doormat".
It is not very polite to interrupt a person, of course, but sometimes if the person is very unpleasant you can hardly stop yourself.
If a man isn't being nice when you're out, all you have to do is remain polite and then go home early.
Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.