If you can't be kind, at least be vague. - Judith Martin

Conversation, which is supposed to be a two-way street, is treated by many people as if it were a divided highway. They may acknowledge that traffic must go in both directions, but speed independently on their own way, expecting you to do the same on your side.

when all of life is a costume party, costume parties are no longer possible.

Once a cad was someone who enticed a lady into consummating a promised marriage before the ceremony had taken place.