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

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

A lady never asks a gentleman to dance, or to go to supper with her.

Manners are like primary colors, there are certain rules and once you have these you merely mix, i.e., adapt, them to meet changing situations.

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.

Golf is a particularly severe strain upon the amiability of the average person's temper, and in no other game, except bridge, is serenity of disposition so essential.

Never do anything that is unpleasant to others.