Casey Wilson Quotes

I like to decide the night before Thanksgiving that I'm gonna do it, and I'll see what riff raff is around. Then I get that last-minute surge of energy. But if I had two weeks to plan, sometimes I wish I wasn't doing it. But very seldom does that happen.

I dread handshakes. I've got some problems with my hands, and everywhere I go, people want to impress me with their grip. To make it worse, now women are coming up with that firm shake.

They shall not reveal any parts of their bodies, except that which is necessary.

We don't pretend to teach ye girls of the town anything more than dancing, or a little music perhaps ...

I almost felt that I should offer to serve coffee.

The Franks are void of all zeal and jealousy. One of them may be walking along with his wife. He meets another man who takes the wife by the hand and steps aside to converse with her while the husband is standing on one side waiting for his wife to conclude the conversation. If she lingers too long for him, he leaves her alone with the conversant and goes away.

All ladies arriving here as strangers it seems expect to be visited by the wives of the heads of the departments and even by the President’s wife. Mrs. Madison subjected herself to this torture, … but from which having begun the practice, she never found an opportunity of receding from.

If a woman likes another woman, she's cordial. If she doesn't like her, she's very cordial.

Anna Petrovna: Never talk to women about your own good qualities. Let them find out for themselves.

There is a sort of veteran women of condition, who, having lived always in the grand mode, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him.

With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.

Great ladies ... are like the best sauces -- it is better not to know how they are made.

All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.

A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of the home.

You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests that you think she's pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment.

An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.

‎You cannot correct an old person every time they say something offensive. You would never make it through Thanksgiving dinner!

I attributed their behavior to the fact that they didn't have a TV, but television didn't teach you everything. Asking for candy on Halloween was called trick-or-treating, but asking for candy on November first was called begging, and it made people uncomfortable. This was one of the things you were supposed to learn simply by being alive, and it angered me that the Tomkeys did not understand it.

If thou wouldst hear what seemly is and fit, inquire of noble woman; they can tell, who in life's common usage hold their place by graceful deed and aptly chosen word.

Association with women is the basis of good manners.

Don't mix wine and women.

Men are forever eager to press drink upon those they consider their superiors, hoping thereby to eliminate that distinction between them.... And women, when confronted by superiors, substitute for drink the crippling liquor of their sex.

The way one was brought up isn't an excuse for rude behavior.

Well,” Waxillium said. “Perhaps I should begin by asking after your health.” “Perhaps you should,” Steris replied. “Er. Yes. How’s your health?” “Suitable.” “So is Waxillium,” Wayne added. They all turned to him. “You know,” he said. “He’s wearing a suit, and all. Suitable. Ahem. Is that mahogany?

Unless you got a really good reason, you should be nice.