“The most advertised commodity is not always intrinsically the best; but is sometimes merely the product of a company, with plenty of money to spend on advertising.”

“The letter we all love to receive is one that carries so much of the writers personality that she seems to be sitting beside us, looking at us directly and talking just as she really would, could s...”

“The attributes of a great lady may still be found in the rule of the four S's: Sincerity, Simplicity, Sympathy and Serenity.”

“Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.”

“Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.”

“Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.”

“Value of gold is understood in crisis than on a occasion. But the gold plays both the role reminding its significance. We yet times need to value and de-value to understand and appreciate significa...”

“My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl that's pretty seductive.”

“What you teach your own children is what you really believe in.”

“it is with this same imperialism that present-day simulators attempt to make the real, all of the real, coincide with their models of simulation.”

“And then I recalled those mysterious stories about the waxworkers of the middle ages and the public reprobation attached to their trade. Did they not live in cellars, in the eternal twilight propit...”