Polite society, often shortened to society, is a euphemism for the upper class.
It can also refer to:
- Polite society, the etiquette amd manners of the upper class
- Polite Society, a 1995 novel by Melanie Sumner, winner of that year's Whiting Writers' Award
- The Polite Society, an American organization that holds shooting events
Famous quotes containing the words polite and/or society:
“Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)