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

Manners require showing consideration of all human beings, not just the ones to whom one is close.

When politeness is used to show up other people, it is reclassified as rudeness. Thus it is technically impossible to be too polite.

Etiquette enables you to resolve conflict without just trading insults. Without etiquette, the irritations in modern life are so abrasive that you see people turning to the law to regulate everyday behavior. This frightens me; it's a major inroad on our basic freedoms.

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

In its natural state, the child tells the literal truth because it is too naive to think of anything else. Blurting out the complete truth is considered adorable in the young, right smack up to the moment that the child says, 'Mommy, is this the fat lady you can't stand?

Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.