Amy Vanderbilt

In Hollywood, not to have an analyst is virtually an admission of failure.

— Amy Vanderbilt

One face to the world, another at home - makes for misery.

— Amy Vanderbilt

The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperone.

— Amy Vanderbilt

Do not speak of repulsive matters at table.

— Amy Vanderbilt

The best-dressed women I know pay very little attention to the picayune aspects of fashion, but they have a sound understanding of…

— Amy Vanderbilt

Do not smoke without asking permission or sit so near (as in a train) that the smoke might annoy.

— Amy Vanderbilt

Everyone knows that a man can marry even if he reaches the age of 102, is penniless, and has all his facilities…

— Amy Vanderbilt

Parents must get across the idea that "I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior."

— Amy Vanderbilt

When we learn to give thanks, we are learning to concentrate not on the bad things, but on the good things in…

— Amy Vanderbilt

We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may never be if we are to…

— Amy Vanderbilt

I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what…

— Amy Vanderbilt

Breakfast is the one meal at which it is permissible to read the paper.

— Amy Vanderbilt

The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.

— Amy Vanderbilt

Ceremony is-really a protection, too, in times of emotional involvement, particularly at death. If we have a social formula to guide us…

— Amy Vanderbilt

Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.

— Amy Vanderbilt

Only a great fool or a great genius is likely to flout all social grace with impunity, and neither one, doing so,…

— Amy Vanderbilt

I have no use for people who exhibit manners.

— Amy Vanderbilt