The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.
I have no use for people who exhibit manners.
The best-dressed women I know pay very little attention to the picayune aspects of fashion, but they have a sound understanding of style.
Breakfast is the one meal at which it is permissible to read the paper.
Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.
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.