The etiquette business has its emergencies, heaven knows, but it is in the nature of etiquette emergencies that once one realizes what one has done, it is too late. One might as well get a good night's sleep and send flowers with an apology in the morning.

If it's against state law, it's generally considered a breach of Etiquette.

many of the guests will eventually leave the table to watch football on television, which would be a rudeness at any other occasion but is a relief at Thanksgiving and probably the only way to get those people to budge.

Washington knows that it is not safe to kick people who are down until you find out what their next stop will be.

When virtues are pointed out first, flaws seem less insurmountable.

The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late but don't have to pay taxes - naturally, no one wants to live any other way.

A lot of men got upset at the feminist movement because they had all the toys and we wanted some.