Nowadays, you form your beliefs to fit your behavior, not the other way around.

Learn graceful ways of saying no and of pointing out that this pressure to do something is not in line with most people's wishes.

It is, indeed, a trial to maintain the virtue of humility when one can't help being right.

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

It is not rude to turn off your telephone by switching it on to an answering machine, which is cheaper and less disruptive than ripping it out of the wall. Those who are offended because they cannot always get through when they seek, at their own convenience, to barge in on people are suffering from a rude expectation.

A general rule of etiquette is that one apologizes for the unfortunate occurrence, but the unthinkable is unmentionable.

People say when you're in love, you don't need etiquette. Well, you need it then more than anything. Or they say, "At home I can just be myself." What they mean is they can be their worst selves... They always mean they will save all their anxiety about how to behave for somebody like the head waiter of a restaurant, someone they'll never see again.