don't try for wit. Settle for humor. You'll last longer.

Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.

Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird.

Good manners spring from just one thing - kind impulses.

Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity.

Protocol may be defined as the code of etiquette which protects royalty from the competition of intellectual and social superiors.

the wealthy ... live in marble mausoleums surrounded by the suspicions and neuroses that have replaced the medieval moats which once isolated so-called aristocrats from reality.