Quotes by : Judith Martin

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

The simple idea that everyone needs a reasonable amount of challenging work in his or her life and also....

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

The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to....

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

One reason that the task of inventing manners is so difficult is that etiquette is folk custom, and people....

There was no singles problem until singles got so single-minded that they stopped wasting time with anyone....

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

Nobody believes that the man who says, 'Look, lady, you wanted equality,' to explain why he won't give....

I am a traditionalist, and I'm an innovator. Most of what I do is to weigh change and legislate to the....