When you're in love, you put up with things that, when you're out of love you cite.

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

Most people who work at home find they do not have the benefit of receptionists who serve as personal guards

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

Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.

It's far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

To sacrifice the principles of manners, which require compassion and respect, and bat people over the head with their ignorance of etiquette rules they cannot be expected to know is both bad manners and poor etiquette. That social climbers and twits have misused etiquette throughout history should not be used as an argument for doing away with it.