You Don't Want To Look Too Chic

Many Of The Guests Will Eventually Leave The Table To Watch Football On Television, Which Would Be A Rudeness At Any Other Occasion But Is A Relief At Thanksgiving And Probably The Only Way To Get Those People To Budge.

When A Society Abandons Its Ideals Just Because Most People Can't Live Up To Them, Behavior Gets Very Ugly Indeed.

Learn Graceful Ways Of Saying No And Of Pointing Out That This Pressure To Do Something Is Not In Line With Most People's Wishes.

Yes, Etiquette Is Hypocritical. Yes, It Does Inhibit Children - If You're Lucky. But The Idea That It's Elitist And Irrelevant Is Like Saying Language Is Elitist And Irrelevant.

She Only Maintains That It Is Possible, Under Some Circumstances, For A Lady To Murder Her Husband; But That A Woman Who Wears Ankle-strap Shoes And Smokes On The Street Corner, Though She May Be A Joy To All Who Know Her And Have Devoted Her Life To Charity, Could Never Qualify As A Lady.