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Judith Martin Quotes
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If you can’t be kind, at least be vague (Judith Martin Quotes)
Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without comment is a wonderful social grace (Judith Martin Quotes)
Everybody’s an art critic (Judith Martin Quotes)
Nowadays, you form your beliefs to fit your behavior, not the other way around (Judith Martin Quotes)
A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful (Judith Martin Quotes)
You do not have to do everything disagreeable that you have a right to do (Judith Martin Quotes)
The way one was brought up isn’t an excuse for rude behavior (Judith Martin Quotes)
Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue (Judith Martin Quotes)
Nowadays people consider it a disgrace to admit that they are not stressed (Judith Martin Quotes)
Generosity and gratitude are inseparably linked (Judith Martin Quotes)
It’s far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help (Judith Martin Quotes)
When you’re in love, you put up with things that, when you’re out of love you cite (Judith Martin Quotes)
One should not be assigned one’s identity in society by the job slot one happens to fill. If we truly believe in the dignity of labor, any task can be performed with equal pride because none can demean the basic dignity of a human being (Judith Martin Quotes)
Washington knows that it is not safe to kick people who are down until you find out what their next stop will be (Judith Martin Quotes)
When people start hurling insults at you, you know their minds are closed and there’s no point in debating. You disengage yourself as quickly as possible from the situation (Judith Martin Quotes)
When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can’t live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed (Judith Martin Quotes)
We are all born charming, fresh, and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society (Judith Martin Quotes)
Adorable children are considered to be the general property of the human race. Rude children belong to their mothers (Judith Martin Quotes)
We are all born rude. No infant has ever appeared yet with the grace to understand how inconsiderate it is to disturb others in the middle of the night (Judith Martin Quotes)
Nowadays, we never allow ourselves the convenience of being temporarily unavailable, even to strangers. With telephone and beeper, people subject themselves to being instantly accessible to everyone at all times, and it is the person who refuses to be on call, rather than the importunate caller, who is considered rude (Judith Martin Quotes)
It is, indeed, a trial to maintain the virtue of humility when one can’t help being right (Judith Martin Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Email is very informal, a memo. But I find that not signing off or not having a salutation bothers me (Judith Martin Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The dinner table is the center for the teaching and practicing not just of table manners but of conversation, consideration, tolerance, family feeling, and just about all the other accomplishments of polite society except the minuet (Judith Martin Quotes)
Everyone old enough to have a secret is entitled to have some place to keep it (Judith Martin Quotes)
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 Quotes)
People who put slipcovers, doilies, plastic protectors, and cellophane on everything good that they own rarely live to see an occasion so good that all these covers are removed (Judith Martin Quotes)
The more skillful the performance of false cheer, the more pleasing the effect is upon one’s public and on that private audience to whom one owes even more (Judith Martin Quotes)
The only way to enjoy the fun of catching people behaving disgustingly is to have children. One has to keep having them, however, because it is incorrect to correct grown people, even if you have grown them yourself (Judith Martin Quotes)