everyone old enough to have a secret is entitled to have some place to keep it.

Many people mistakenly think a new technology cancels out an old one.

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

It is said that dispensing advice is easy. What is difficult is getting anyone to listen to it.

You don't want to look too chic at a Washington party or people will think you don't have a job worth losing.

Shame is the proper reaction when one has purposefully violated the accepted behavior of society. Inflicting it is etiquette's response when its rules are disobeyed. The law has all kinds of nasty ways of retaliating when it is disregarded, but etiquette has only a sense of social shame to deter people from treating others in ways they know are wrong. So naturally Miss Manners wants to maintain the sense of shame. Some forms of discomfort are fully justified, and the person who feels shame ought to be dealing with removing its causes rather than seeking to relieve the symptoms.

Only a person who considers himself too good for you is good enough.