Bad manners are socially inevitable because as the lower orders become more affluent, which God knows no one begrudges them, they come into situations where they don’t know how to behave. Nothing in their training has prepared them for it. – John Simon

I don’t like principles. I prefer prejudices. – Oscar Wilde

“Dinner theater” is a way of positively guaranteeing that both food and theater will be amateur and mediocre, which means unthreatening and therefore desirable. – Paul Fussell