Greece is a good place for rebirths.

You do not have to do everything disagreeable that you have a right to do

It is a widespread and firm belief among guests that their departure is always a matter of distress to their hosts, and that in order to indicate that they have been pleasantly entertained, they must demonstrate an extreme unwillingness to allow the entertainment to conclude. This is not necessarily true.

For email, the old postcard rule applies. Nobody else is supposed to read your postcards, but you'd be a fool if you wrote anything private on one.

Indeed, Miss Manners has come to believe that the basic political division in this country is not between liberals and conservatives but between those who believe that they should have a say in the love lives of strangers and those who do not.

People will say, 'Seventy isn't old, it's middle-aged,' and I think, middle of what - 140?

The etiquette question that troubles so many fastidious people New Year's Day is: How am I ever going to face those people again?