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

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.

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.

With all eagerness, pursues your sacred dreams.

Why else do you think we are permanently at war in various regions all over the world? And why is it the citizens of this country, one of the richest on earth, get poorer each year?

Jackie considered his resurrection, the world's best return performance.

If at first you don't succeed, Call an airstrike.

A lack of direction and meaning can leave you empty.

A good friend will help you plant your tulips. A great friend will help you plant a gun on the unarmed intruder you just shot.

Our problems come not from what we believe, but from how we believe in what we do.

Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.

I should have the courage of my lack of convictions.

Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm.