Announcements Quote by Judith Martin

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

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If you put together all the ingredients that naturally attract children - sex, violence, revenge, spectacle and vigorous noise - what you have is…

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

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Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet.…

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There are always proper responses, even to rude questions.

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Perhaps the greatest rudenesses of our time come not from the callousness of strangers, but from the solicitousness of intimates who believe that their…

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

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“Lady” is not used before the lady’s first name unless she is the daughter of a duke, marquess or earl; those who come by…

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Greece is a good place for rebirths.

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Adorable children are considered to be the general property of the human race. Rude children belong to their mothers.

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I have always believed that the key to a happy marriage was the ability to say with a straight face, 'Why, I don't know…

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

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