Alas! it is true: "Be polite to bores and so shall you have bores always round about you."

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

The only occasion when the traditions of courtesy permit a hostess to help herself before a woman guest is when she has reason to believe the food is poisoned.

Alas! it is true: "Be polite to bores and so shall you have bores always round about you."

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.

No rule of etiquette is of less importance than which fork we use.

The letter we all love to receive is one that carries so much of the writer’s personality that she seems to be sitting beside us, looking at us directly and talking just as she really would, could she have come on a magic carpet, instead of sending her proxy in ink-made characters on mere paper.