Elbows are never put on the table while one is eating.

Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.

Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them.

An overdose of praise is like 10 lumps of sugar in coffee; only a very few people can swallow it.

Houses without personality are a series of walled enclosures with furniture standing around in them. Other houses are filled with things of little intrinsic value, even with much that is shabby and yet they have that inviting atmosphere.

Never take more than your share - whether of the road in driving your car, of chairs on a boat or seats on a train, or food at the table.

Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them; manner is personality - the outward manifestation of one's innate character and attitude toward life.... Etiquette must, if it is to be of more than trifling use, include ethics as well as manners. Certainly what one is, is of far greater importance than what one appears to be.