One of the keys to our present definition of good taste is that it is better to be kind than to be 'correct.' There is no situation in which it is smart to be nasty.
Millicent FenwickA code of behavior is an inevitable part of life in any community, and if we hadn't inherited ours, we should have had to invent one.
Millicent FenwickLike life and people, it is full of paradoxes. Etiquette is based on tradition, and yet it can change. Its ramifications are trivialities, but its roots are in great principles.
Millicent Fenwick