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

The pejorative term "political correctness" was adapted to express disapproval of the enlargement of etiquette to cover all people, in spite of this being a principle to which all Americans claim to subscribe.

Indeed, Miss Manners has come to believe that the basic political division in this country is not between liberals and conservatives but between those who believe that they should have a say in the love lives of strangers and those who do not.

The only way to enjoy the fun of catching people behaving disgustingly is to have children. One has to keep having them, however, because it is incorrect to correct grown people, even if you have grown them yourself.

When you consider how epidemic boredom is in our time, you have to concede that entertaining is a healing art.

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

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