There is nothing like a good friend to help you out when you are not in trouble.

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.

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.

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

If it's against state law, it's generally considered a breach of Etiquette.

Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without comment is a wonderful social grace.

everyone old enough to have a secret is entitled to have some place to keep it.