"The modern rule is that every woman should……" — Amy Vanderbilt
"The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon."
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12 Quotes by Amy Vanderbilt
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- Parents must get across the idea that "I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior."
- Everyone knows that a man can marry even if he reaches the age of 102, is penniless, and has all…
- One face to the world, another at home - makes for misery.
- Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely…
- Do not speak of repulsive matters at table.
- Do not smoke without asking permission or sit so near (as in a train) that the smoke might annoy.
- The best-dressed women I know pay very little attention to the picayune aspects of fashion, but they have a sound…
- When we learn to give thanks, we are learning to concentrate not on the bad things, but on the good…
- We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may never be if we…
- I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly…
- The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperone.
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