Nowadays, you form your beliefs to fit your behavior, not the other way around.

Most people who work at home find they do not have the benefit of receptionists who serve as personal guards

If it's against state law, it's generally considered a breach of Etiquette.

Adorable children are considered to be the general property of the human race. Rude children belong to their mothers.

It's far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

The family dinner table is the cornerstone of civilization and those who 'graze' from refrigerators or in front of the television sets are doomed to remain in a state of savagery.

Ideological differences are no excuse for rudeness.

We are born charming fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

If you can't be kind, at least be vague.

When virtues are pointed out first, flaws seem less insurmountable.

Society cannot exist without etiquette ... It never has, and until our own century, everybody knew that.

All life's training is just exactly what is needed for the true Life-work, still out of view but far away from none of us. Don't grudge me the learning of a new lesson.

What is the point of learning things if you are not even doing things?

I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

When you're making a purchasing decision around an appliance or a car or a home, that's when to take the environment into mind, but don't dwell so much on paper versus plastic.

What's important for me is staying healthy.

The Frenchman is first and foremost a man. He is likeable often just because of his weaknesses, which are always thoroughly human, even if despicable.

I don’t even know at what age I started, because it’s always been there. Performing … creating … it’s in my DNA.

The unforgivable sin of Hitler's Germany was to develop a new economic system by which the international bankers were deprived of their profits.

See what a ready tongue suspicion hath!