the obligation to express gratitude deepens with procrastination. The longer you wait, the more effusive must be the thanks.

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.

I felt like I should salute. If only I knew how.

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

No trilogy should have more than four books.

In high school, my desire for friendship far outweighed my talent for it.

The Oscar seems to have been confused with the Nobel Peace Prize.

Riches exclude only one inconvenience,--that is, poverty.

I don't really care about being right, I just care about success.

Follow the customer, if they change, we change.

My whole life story is kind of a backhanded compliment.

I need to go someplace faraway that doesn't have telephones and doesn't have a record player and doesn't have movie theaters and people walking down the street in order to not do anything.