Millicent Fenwick Quote

A code of behavior is an inevitable part of life in any community, and if we hadn't inherited ours, we should have had to invent one.


Vogue's Book of Etiquette (1948)


A code of behavior is an inevitable part of life in any community, and if we hadn't inherited ours, we should have had to invent one.

A code of behavior is an inevitable part of life in any community, and if we hadn't inherited ours, we should have had to invent one.

A code of behavior is an inevitable part of life in any community, and if we hadn't inherited ours, we should have had to invent one.

A code of behavior is an inevitable part of life in any community, and if we hadn't inherited ours, we should have had to invent one.