Social Mores & Manners
- "An annoyingly cheery person told me that I ought smile as frowning required the use of 42 muscles and smiling a mere 16. I politely informed them that I was exercising."
- "I try not to be too critical of the sexual mores of others. After all, they probably knew the names of the people they disported with."
- "Just because we are evil does not mean that we must also be rude. Evil is no excuse for bad manners."
- "Drama queens live life secure in the belief that it is all our privilege to experience their bright and shining glory, that we all exist as understudies and extras in the great drama that is their life. Well, I am no one's bloody extra."
- "Show me someone that doesn't respect you enough to be courteous, and I'll show you someone that plain doesn't respect you. I've no tolerance for rude people at this point in my life."
- "When old acquaintances tell me that they are married, I know to wish them well, though my first impulse is to offer my sympathies. When they tell me they are divorced, I am never sure whether to wish them congratulations or condolences, easier by far in the days before no fault divorce, because then one always knew to congratulate recent divorcees."
- "Every man has two names in life. The one that he is born with and the one that people hiss when he's out of earshot."
- "I always hear the young dragging about whining People suck, well, it's been my experience that the right ones never do."
- "I have drunk deeply of the milk of human kindness and found it rife with botulism."
- "If people are determined to dislike me, I am determined to give them good cause. There is nothing more tragic than misplaced contempt."
- "There seem to be a great many people that think that they have a right to not be offended by the speech of others, if they truly had the courage of their convictions, they would shut the fuck up."
- "If she loathed me without cause, her social circle would think her an ass. Nothing worse than losing face like that. So by returning her contempt in spades, she feels justified, and her acquaintances lay the blame on me. Mind you, I don't expect them to acknowledge the favour."
- "Why do I care what others think of me? In the end, the last laugh will be mine."
- "You invite abuse, it would be impolite of you not to accept it."
- "I am warm to those I like, cordial to those I dislike and ruthless to the willfully rude."
- "If deceit, ruthlessness and self absorption were the prerequisites for stardom, she would be an Oscar winner rather than aging ex-porn star."
- "Advice is always rude. Good advice doubly so."