Good manners spring from just one thing - kind impulses.

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.

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

Cocktails are society's most enduring invention!

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.

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.

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