Melissa Bee

“She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“It used to be just CIA agents with ear-pieces who walked round with preoccupied, faraway expressions, and consequently regarded all the little people as irrelevant scum. Now, understandably, it's nearly everybody.”
― Lynne Truss, Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door

“There are only two people who tell you the truth about yourself--an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.”
― Antisthenes Pinto

“Then [good manners] must be inspired by the good heart. There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson