When politeness is used to show up other people, it is reclassified as rudeness. Thus it is technically impossible to be too polite.

A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful.

Meanwhile, the empty forms of social behavior survive inappropriately in business situations. We all know that when a business sends its customers 'friendly reminders,' it really means business.

Protocol is etiquette with a government expense account.

many of the guests will eventually leave the table to watch football on television, which would be a rudeness at any other occasion but is a relief at Thanksgiving and probably the only way to get those people to budge.

Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.

She only maintains that it is possible, under some circumstances, for a lady to murder her husband; but that a woman who wears ankle-strap shoes and smokes on the street corner, though she may be a joy to all who know her and have devoted her life to charity, could never qualify as a lady.