Judith Martin
Judith Martin
Judith Martin, better known by the pen name Miss Manners, is an American journalist, author, and etiquette authority...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth13 September 1938
CountryUnited States of America
positive love-you citing
When you're in love, you put up with things that, when you're out of love you cite.
advice easy said
It is said that dispensing advice is easy. What is difficult is getting anyone to listen to it.
thinking people middle
People will say, 'Seventy isn't old, it's middle-aged,' and I think, middle of what - 140?
people lazy want
people, in forming their opinions of others, are usually lazy enough to go by whatever is most obvious or whatever chance remark they happen to hear. So the best policy is to dictate to others the opinion you want them to have of you.
new-year years people
The etiquette question that troubles so many fastidious people New Year's Day is: How am I ever going to face those people again?
way belief fit
Nowadays, you form your beliefs to fit your behavior, not the other way around.
nice people challenges
The challenge of manners is not so much to be nice to someone whose favor and/or person you covet (although more people need to be reminded of that necessity than one would suppose) as to be exposed to the bad manners of others without imitating them.
children writing world
Why bring children into a world where no one writes letters?
running missing mind
Miss Manners does not mind explaining the finer points of gracious living, but she feels that anyone without the sense to pick up a potato chip and stuff it in their face should probably not be running around loose on the streets.
people impossible rudeness
When politeness is used to show up other people, it is reclassified as rudeness. Thus it is technically impossible to be too polite.
women answers loan
Question- Should I loan a small amount of money to a friend? Answer- If you are sure that you can, if necessary, spare both.
women rude response
There are always proper responses, even to rude questions.
women giving information
There is no etiquette rule that decrees one must give out personal information to anyone who asks.
women trying annoying
Try not to annoy your relatives unnecessarily.