I make enemies deliberately. They are the sauce piquante to my dish of life.

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

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

Etiquette-a fancy word for simple kindness.

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

[On Hollywood:] I had gone there expecting to see parties that reflected the stock-in-trade of the movies - glamour. Instead, I found the same attitude toward parties that European peasants had for baths. It was something to be done methodically every Saturday night.

Good manners - the longer I live the more convinced I am of it - are a priceless insurance against failure and loneliness. And anyone can have them.