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Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.

The mistake people keep making is that if they find a wonderful new tool, like email, they have to give up all others. They don't. You have simply added another very useful means to your communications repertoire.

Judith Martin

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.

Judith Martin

There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.

Judith Martin

Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.

Judith Martin

You glance at an e-mail. You give more attention to a real letter.

Judith Martin

Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue.

Judith Martin

Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.

Judith Martin

We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

Judith Martin

You do not have to do everything disagreeable that you have a right to do.

Judith Martin

If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.

Judith Martin

We already know that anonymous letters are despicable. In etiquette, as well as in law, hiring a hit man to do the job does not relieve you of responsibility.

Judith Martin

The greater the controversy, the more you need manners.

Judith Martin

First. I began my career as a copy girl. and the White House coverage, for example, was in the then-Women's section. So it was social coverage. It wasn't news, although we often got rather startling news out of it.

Judith Martin

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.

Judith Martin

Many people mistakenly think a new technology cancels out an old one.

Judith Martin

Presents are symbolic. When you give them in your personal life, they should show that you are paying attention to the person to whom you're giving them.

Judith Martin

Most people who work at home find they do not have the benefit of receptionists who serve as personal guards.

Judith Martin

Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.

Judith Martin

It's far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

Judith Martin

I am a traditionalist, and I'm an innovator. Most of what I do is to weigh change and legislate to the best of my ability on what should change and what should not. Do I have a respect for tradition? Of course I do. Do I have a blind belief in it? No.

Judith Martin

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.

Judith Martin

Etiquette is all human social behavior. If you're a hermit on a mountain, you don't have to worry about etiquette; if somebody comes up the mountain, then you've got a problem. It matters because we want to live in reasonably harmonious communities.

Judith Martin

Freedom without rules doesn't work. And communities do not work unless they are regulated by etiquette.

Judith Martin

Obviously I'm going to be polite, so nobody has anything to fear from me.

Judith Martin

Over the last couple of decades, the personalization of the office changed dramatically... there's an informality people often take for the absence of rules - which it's not.

Judith Martin

For email, the old postcard rule applies. Nobody else is supposed to read your postcards, but you'd be a fool if you wrote anything private on one.

Judith Martin