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Only a great fool or a great genius is likely to flout all social grace with impunity, and neither one, doing so, makes the most comfortable companion.
I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what traditions they have discarded, what compromises they have made.
Do not smoke without asking permission or sit so near (as in a train) that the smoke might annoy.
In Hollywood, not to have an analyst is virtually an admission of failure ...
I have no use for people who exhibit manners.
Do not speak of repulsive matters at table.
Parents must get across the idea that "I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior."
The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperone.
Everyone knows that a man can marry even if he reaches the age of 102, is penniless, and has all his facilities gone. There is always some woman willing to take a chance on him.
One face to the world, another at home - makes for misery.
Ceremony is-really a protection, too, in times of emotional involvement, particularly at death. If we have a social formula to guide us and do not have to extemporize, we feel better able to handle life.
