We are born charming fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

Adorable children are considered to be the general property of the human race. Rude children belong to their mothers.

I make a distinction between manners and etiquette - manners as the principles, which are eternal and universal, etiquette as the particular rules which are arbitrary and different in different times, different situations, different cultures.

Nowadays, we never allow ourselves the convenience of being temporarily unavailable, even to strangers. With telephone and beeper, people subject themselves to being instantly accessible to everyone at all times, and it is the person who refuses to be on call, rather than the importunate caller, who is considered rude.

There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.

Greece is a good place for rebirths.

A wedding invitation is sent by people who have been saying, "Do we have to ask them?" to people whose first response is, "How much do you think we have to spend on them?