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
children honesty thinking
In its natural state, the child tells the literal truth because it is too naive to think of anything else. Blurting out the complete truth is considered adorable in the young, right smack up to the moment that the child says, 'Mommy, is this the fat lady you can't stand?
thinking excuse desertion
You think death is any better an excuse for desertion than any other?
mean thinking differences
People think, mistakenly, that etiquette means you have to suppress your differences. On the contray, etiquette is what enables you to deal with them; it gives you a set of rules.
jobs party thinking
You don't want to look too chic at a Washington party or people will think you don't have a job worth losing.
technology thinking people
Many people mistakenly think a new technology cancels out an old one.
thinking people love-and-marriage
A wedding invitation is sent by people who have been saying, "Do we have to ask them?" to people whose first response is, "How much do you think we have to spend on them?
thinking people middle
People will say, 'Seventy isn't old, it's middle-aged,' and I think, middle of what - 140?
thinking people would-be
It has always puzzled me, in my business, that people think they have to answer questions, no matter how disagreeable or dangerous, just because they were asked. Of course, we journalists would be out of business if they didn't.
people
People read informality as, 'Do whatever you feel like,' and whatever you feel like might be disastrous.
children sounds stage
My children did not go through a stage of being rude to their parents. I'm sorry if that sounds incredible.
american-author civilized fit fresh society
We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.
fear obviously
Obviously I'm going to be polite, so nobody has anything to fear from me.
clothing high realize
The language of clothing is high symbolism and we all, in moments where we need to know this, realize it.
added means people simply useful wonderful
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.