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

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

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.

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

Good manners spring from just one thing - kind impulses.

Intolerance of mediocrity has been the main prop of my independence.

Fight fire with fire. If you must have bores, always put them together or at the same table ... bores have an effervescent chemical reaction on one another at a party. They invariably have a marvelous time trading banalities in the absence of competition. Clichés roll trippingly off the tongue like sparkling epigrams and trite observations acquire depth sinking into receptive minds.