Etiquette-a fancy word for simple kindness.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Someone has said that life itself is a party: you join after it's started and you leave before it's finished.

Anatomize the character of a successful hostess and the knife will lay bare the fact that she owes her position to one of three things: either she is liked, or she is feared, or she is important.

People who have escaped from poverty are like old soldiers. In later years they recount the little, amusing incidents that happened infrequently, and conveniently forget the long, unrelieved stretches of misery and boredom.

Good manners spring from just one thing - kind impulses.

Nothing spoils a good party like a genius.