Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you… — Emily Post Copy Share
An overdose of praise is like 10 lumps of sugar in coffee; only a very few people can swallow it. — Emily Post Copy Share
“Persons under the shock of genuine affliction are not only upset mentally but are all unbalanced physically. No matter how calm and controlled they… — Emily Post Copy Share
A little praise is not only merest justice but is beyond the purse of no one. — Emily Post Copy Share
To make a pleasant and friendly impression is not only good manners, but equally good business. — Emily Post Copy Share
Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them; manner is personality… — Emily Post Copy Share
Training a child is exactly like training a puppy; a little heedless inattention and it is out of hand immediately; the great thing is… — Emily Post Copy Share
One very great annoyance in open air gatherings is cigar smoke when blown directly in one's face or worse yet the smoke from a… — Emily Post Copy Share
Excepting a religious ceremonial, there is no occasion where greater dignity of manner is required of ladies and gentlemen both, than in occupying a… — Emily Post Copy Share
“The most advertised commodity is not always intrinsically the best; but is sometimes merely the product of a company, with plenty of money to… — Emily Post Copy Share
She must not swing her arms as though they were dangling ropes; she must not switch herself this way and that; she must not… — Emily Post Copy Share
To be a good sportsman, one must be a stoic and never show rancor in defeat, or triumph in victory, or irritation, no matter… — Emily Post Copy Share
Houses without personality are a series of walled enclosures with furniture standing around in them. Other houses are filled with things of little intrinsic… — Emily Post Copy Share
Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them. — Emily Post Copy Share
