I know the true world, and you know I do. But we needn't let it think we all bow down. -
Christopher Morley, The Dark is Light Enough"I don't care what people do, as long as they don't do it in the middle of the street and scare the horses!"
(only applied to certain situations, of course)
On arguments in society meetings:
"Her own contribution to getting everyone home is to tell well-meaning people who keep vehemently restating their views what her own mamma used to say to dear Uncle Henry when he did that.
'The trouble with our discussions,' dear Mamma would say, 'is that you think that if I disagree with you, it must be because I don't understand your position.' "
(all three from/via "Miss Manners' guide for the turn-of-the-millennium: Explicit, practical, and entertaining advice on social, business, and personal etiquette" [2000])