Everybody's An Art Critic.

Chaperons, Even In Their Days Of Glory, Were Almost Never Able To Enforce Morality; What They Did Was To Force Immorality To Be Discreet. This Is No Small Contribution.

Appearing To Pay Attention When Someone Is Speaking Is One Of The Cornerstones Of Real Social Interaction.

A Small Wedding Is Not Necessarily One To Which Very Few People Are Invited. It Is One To Which The Person You Are Addressing Is Not Invited.

One Reason That The Task Of Inventing Manners Is So Difficult Is That Etiquette Is Folk Custom, And People Have Emotional Ties To The Forms Of Their Youth. That Is Why There Is Such Hostility Between Generations In Times Of Rapid Change; Their Manners Being Different, Each Feels Affronted By The Other, Taking Even The Most Surface Choices For Challenges.

Society Cannot Exist Without Etiquette ... It Never Has, And Until Our Own Century, Everybody Knew That.