Good manners are ageless, priceless and classless.

In these days of equality, what's good for women is good for men.

What glasses for which wine, which knife and fork -- that was what frightened them the most.

That is very important. The weak, horrible, wet fish handshake is a problem. That gives a lot away.

Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.

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.