Everybody's An Art Critic.

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.

We Are All Entitled To Our Little Harmless Habits, But We Are Not Entitled To Demand Approval For Them.

If Written Directions Alone Would Suffice, Libraries Wouldn't Need To Have The Rest Of The Universities Attached.

A Young Lady Is A Female Child Who Has Just Done Something Dreadful.

It Is Not Rude To Turn Off Your Telephone By Switching It On To An Answering Machine, Which Is Cheaper And Less Disruptive Than Ripping It Out Of The Wall. Those Who Are Offended Because They Cannot Always Get Through When They Seek, At Their Own Convenience, To Barge In On People Are Suffering From A Rude Expectation.