Clarissa Ward Quotes

People seem to think that you should be willing to speak to them whether they're jerks or not.

Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.

Vicars, MPS and lawyers were amont those who considered me to be the best hostess in London.

My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.

If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him by asking?

Never insult anyone by accident.

In elementary school, we all say, 'If you don't have anything nice to say, then don't say anything at all.' In high school, we should say, 'If you don't have anything nice to say, shut your mouth.' So that's what I'm telling high schools all around the world.

The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.

Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.

If you don't have anything nice to say... dead silence creates a lot awkwardness.

How can you interview somebody about something fairly technical if you start on the wrong foot by not even knowing his name?

I put my best foot forward to make the best impression I could have, and it's been serving me well ever since.

If they are not positive about the run, I won't talk to them. I'm not here to play games with the media.

When sharing your ideas, overconfidence is a killer. You don't want your male coworkers to think you're getting all uppity. Instead, downplay your ideas as just 'thinking out loud,' 'throwing something out there,' or sharing something 'dumb,' 'random,' or 'crazy.'

In my line of work, I frequently communicate with CEOs and their executive assistants, and nowhere is the need for gratitude more clear.

If you are a woman and you bought this book for practical tips on how to make it in a male-dominated workplace, here they are. No pigtails, no tube tops. Cry sparingly. (Some people say “Never let them see you cry.” I say, if you’re so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone.)

The man who thrusts his manners upon me does as if he were to insist on introducing me to his cabinet of curiosities, when I wished to see himself.

In today's world you have to interact. You can't be some difficult, shy person who is not able to look somebody in the face; you have to present yourself. You have to know how to talk about your vision, your focus and what you believe in.

Although the advice that you get if you got to see Margaret is 'stand up for yourself, shout back, and argue the toss and then she will respect you', the trouble is that sort of advice to the English middle-class male of a certain age doesn't actually help us very much because we've always been brought up to believe that it's extremely rude to shout back at women.

There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best thing in the world either to get a good name, or to supply the want of it.

I have already prepared my counter proposal. It reads thusly: you may strategically place your wonderful lips upon my posterior and kiss it repeatedly!

Observe with both friend and foe the ordinary rules of courtesy.

Some of the morays have held on. When I was in school, I remember asking the question, "Why is it that whenever I walk into a fraternity there's alcohol everywhere and there's no alcohol in a sorority? Why is it that sororities won't allow alcohol, but fraternities do? What is that?" You know, nobody had a really good answer, and that's kind of held on. It's one of the issues that's being examined now - the role of alcohol in sexual assault.

Men generally do not see women as competition.