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  • Journalist
  • born 1938
  • 161 quotes

Judith Martin, a journalist (born 1938), is quoted 161 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Women, Etiquette, Advice and Way.

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Everybody's an art critic.

Greece is a good place for rebirths.

I try to behave myself, and I succeed.

If you can't be kind, at least be vague.

What is Thanksgiving without a nutty relative?

Try not to annoy your relatives unnecessarily.

Generosity and gratitude are inseparably linked.

Ideological differences are no excuse for rudeness.

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

The greater the controversy, the more you need manners.

Protocol is etiquette with a government expense account.

There are always proper responses, even to rude questions.

The most conventional statements are both true and welcome.

Why bring children into a world where no one writes letters?

The way one was brought up isn't an excuse for rude behavior.

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

When virtues are pointed out first, flaws seem less insurmountable.

Only a person who considers himself too good for you is good enough.

A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful.

You think death is any better an excuse for desertion than any other?

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

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

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

The underlying principles of manners- respect, fairness, and congeniality.

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

If it's against state law, it's generally considered a breach of Etiquette.

Nowadays people consider it a disgrace to admit that they are not stressed.

The stress of making small talk with in-laws is called being part of a family.

Nowadays, you form your beliefs to fit your behavior, not the other way around.

everyone old enough to have a secret is entitled to have some place to keep it.

Sometimes we do things a certain way just because that is the way we do things.

There is nothing like a good friend to help you out when you are not in trouble.

The one prediction that never comes true is, 'You'll thank me for telling you this.

When you're in love, you put up with things that, when you're out of love you cite.

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

Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without comment is a wonderful social grace.

People will say, 'Seventy isn't old, it's middle-aged,' and I think, middle of what - 140?

It is, indeed, a trial to maintain the virtue of humility when one can't help being right.

It is said that dispensing advice is easy. What is difficult is getting anyone to listen to it.

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

A lot of men got upset at the feminist movement because they had all the toys and we wanted some.

Manners require showing consideration of all human beings, not just the ones to whom one is close.

There is no etiquette rule that decrees one must give out personal information to anyone who asks.

Smart people duck when they hear the dread announcement 'I'm going to be perfectly honest with you.

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

Being listened to should be sufficiently gratifying in itself, whether or not the advice is followed.

Email is very informal, a memo. But I find that not signing off or not having a salutation bothers me.

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

We are all entitled to our little harmless habits, but we are not entitled to demand approval for them.

Society cannot exist without etiquette ... It never has, and until our own century, everybody knew that.

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