Manners require showing consideration of all human beings, not just the ones to whom one is close.

The one prediction that never comes true is, 'You'll thank me for telling you this.

If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.

Everybody's an art critic.

When politeness is used to show up other people, it is reclassified as rudeness. Thus it is technically impossible to be too polite.

The idea that people can behave naturally, without resorting to an artificial code tacitly agreed upon by their society, is as silly as the idea that they can communicate by a spoken language without commonly accepted semantic and grammatical rules.

Whamming someone smaller than oneself in order to teach that person civilized behavior is not within Miss Manners' concept of propriety, much less logic.