One face to the world, another at home - makes for misery.

Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.

Parents must get across the idea that "I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior."

When we learn to give thanks, we are learning to concentrate not on the bad things, but on the good things in our lives.

Everyone knows that a man can marry even if he reaches the age of 102, is penniless, and has all his facilities gone. There is always some woman willing to take a chance on him.

I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what traditions they have discarded, what compromises they have made.

Only a great fool or a great genius is likely to flout all social grace with impunity, and neither one, doing so, makes the most comfortable companion.

The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.

Breakfast is the one meal at which it is permissible to read the paper.

We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may never be if we are to live pleasantly with our fellow man.

The best-dressed women I know pay very little attention to the picayune aspects of fashion, but they have a sound understanding of style.

January is my favorite month, when the light is plainest, least colored. And I like the feeling of beginnings.

Schools are no longer legally segregated, but because of residential patterns, housing discrimination, economic disparities and long-held custom, they most emphatically are in reality.

My idea of growing older is wonderful. However, if I grow old, that's shameful. Older is good, old is bad.

You forget, when you're in the Scandinavian countries, you forget they don't speak English first and they speak better than I do.

Occasionally the impossible happens; this is a truism that accounts for much of what we call good luck; and also, bad.

Alas! When duty grows thy law, enjoyment fades away.

Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person of the male bird.

There was no immunity to cuckoo ideas on Earth.

I just try to tell a story with a song, and be able to try to transmit the emotion to you. That's all I'm really trying to do.

In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.