Emily Post Quotes
- Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.
- Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.
- In popular houses where visitors like to go again and again, there is always a happy combination of some attention on the part of the…
- Etiquette requires the presumption of good until the contrary is proved.
- There is no reason why you should be bored when you can be otherwise. But if you find yourself sitting in the hedgerow with nothing…
- Good manners reflect something from inside-an innate sense of consideration for others and respect for self.
- A gentleman does not boast about his junk.
- If you are hurt, whether in mind or body, don't nurse your bruises. Get up and light-heartedly, courageously, good temperedly get ready for the next…
- She must not swing her arms as though they were dangling ropes; she must not switch herself this way and that; she must not shout;…