What matters is not whether you put your fork or knife together because you've finished your meal, or something like that. What matters is that you don't offend people, or hurt their feelings by mistake by saying the wrong thing or doing the wrong thing.

Nowadays people don't use face powder; they say it dries the skin. But I makeup in the old-fashioned way.

Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist - but then what isn't?

If you truly love me, kill the bartender.

No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.

As we all know from witnessing the consuming jealousy of husbands who are never faithful, people do not confine themselves to the emotions to which they are entitled.

I never miss England.