Nobody Believes That The Man

To Sacrifice The Principles Of Manners, Which Require Compassion And Respect, And Bat People Over The Head With Their Ignorance Of Etiquette Rules They Cannot Be Expected To Know Is Both Bad Manners And Poor Etiquette. That Social Climbers And Twits Have Misused Etiquette Throughout History Should Not Be Used As An Argument For Doing Away With It.

When Virtues Are Pointed Out First, Flaws Seem Less Insurmountable.

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.

Indeed, Miss Manners Has Come To Believe That The Basic Political Division In This Country Is Not Between Liberals And Conservatives But Between Those Who Believe That They Should Have A Say In The Love Lives Of Strangers And Those Who Do Not.

Perhaps The Greatest Rudenesses Of Our Time Come Not From The Callousness Of Strangers, But From The Solicitousness Of Intimates Who Believe That Their Frank Criticisms Are Always Welcome, And Who Feel Free To "be Themselves" With Those They Love, Which Turns Out To Mean Being Their Worst Selves, While Saving Their Best Behavior For Strangers.