Alja

“In the meantime: (1) be direct; (2) remember that, being smarter than men, women respond to courtesy and kindness; (3) if you want to know what kind of a wife someone will make, observe her around her father and mother; (4) as to who gets out of the elevator first, I just can't help you.”
― David Mamet, Some Freaks

“I smiled back, the importance of manners, my mother always said, is inversely related to how inclined one is to use them, or, in other words, sometimes politeness is all that stands between oneself and madness.”
― Nicole Krauss, Great House

“Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Walking on two legs has nothing to do with intelligence.”
― Rosanna P. Brost