After dinner, over the cigars, it is bad form for men to discuss any subjects but stocks and motor cars.
Whenever, at a dinner, an anecdote is narrated in French, it is always a wise precaution to laugh heartily.
Women should not complain of their husbands in public. All married women have a great deal to contend with. Everybody knows that married men make very poor husbands.
At a dinner the safest conversational opening is as follows: “Is that your bread, or mine?”
When, at a dinner, you don’t know the lady next to you, show her your dinner card and say: