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

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

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.

Do not smoke without asking permission or sit so near (as in a train) that the smoke might annoy.

I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.

If a quote changes your life in a good way, keep it in your mind and in your heart to give it to someone else too!

Vanity might be a "sin" according to some lights, but he thought in measured doses it was one of life's allowable simple pleasures. It helped everyone get through their days.

The longer you live, the more mistakes you make. And the more sorrows you carry.

She never belittled him though she knew the strength of his doubts

Art does what reality cannot.

Nevertheless, the basic forms, spaces, and appearances must be logical

It may well be there is something else going on in the brain that we don't have an inkling of at the moment.

He is the purest figure in history. About George Washington

Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary.