'Honesty' in social life is often used as a cover for rudeness. But there is quite a difference between being candid in what you're talking about, and people voicing their insulting opinions under the name of honesty.

Smart people duck when they hear the dread announcement 'I'm going to be perfectly honest with you.

Fairness does not consist so much of everybody's doing the same thing, but of everybody's being willing to do something that others don't want to do.

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

Everybody's an art critic.

It is said that dispensing advice is easy. What is difficult is getting anyone to listen to it.

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.