Sentence examples for the polite thing from inspiring English sources

The polite thing.

So what is the polite thing to say?

When there's no space between people, the polite thing is not to push yourself in there.

On one level this was the polite thing to do: guests first.

We can rescue, as Louis C. K. would say, the "polite thing" from the slur.

More often than not, it's just the polite thing to say.

At least, those are the polite things we shout!

A bold theory, is perhaps the politest thing to call that.

The politest thing she will say to someone who assumes that she comes from a gospel background or that she called on religion to help her through the fallow episodes of her career is "Jesus had nothing to do with it".

I decide to say the only polite thing to the section of the audience I shan't be looking at throughout: Goodbye.

That's the only polite thing to do, really.