When people start hurling insults at you, you know their minds are closed and there's no point in debating. You disengage yourself as quickly as possible from the situation.

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.

Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

I dislike Tolkien, another Oxonian Old Norse obsessive, with his war games and made-up language in a world without women.

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm it moves stones it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

Defense is the first act of war.

If only I could throw away the urge to trace my patterns in your heart, I could really see you.

But it seems that the wind is setting East, and the withering of all Woods may be drawing near.

Im not impressed by anything the Miami Heat does.

Abortion is either OK or it's not.

I don't think I'm boring.