When you consider how epidemic boredom is in our time, you have to concede that entertaining is a healing art.

Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.

Charming villains have always had a decided social advantage over well-meaning people who chew with their mouths open.

. . . women were brought up to have only one set of manners. A woman was either a lady or she wasn't, and we all know what the latter meant. Not even momentary lapses were allowed; there is no female equivalent of the boys-will-be-boys concept.

If you can't be kind, at least be vague.

Greece is a good place for rebirths.

Like language, a code of manners can be used with more or less skill, for laudable or for evil purposes, to express a great variety of ideas and emotions. In itself, it carries no moral value, but ignorance in use of this tool is not a sign of virtue.