Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what… — Emily Post Awareness Copy Share Image
An overdose of praise is like 10 lumps of sugar in coffee; only a very few people can swallow it. — Emily Post Coffee Copy Share Image
“Persons under the shock of genuine affliction are not only upset mentally but are all unbalanced physically. No matter how calm and… — Emily Post Emotional people Copy Share Image
A little praise is not only merest justice but is beyond the purse of no one. — Emily Post Justice Copy Share Image
To make a pleasant and friendly impression is not only good manners, but equally good business. — Emily Post Business Copy Share Image
Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them; manner… — Emily Post Attitude Copy Share Image
Training a child is exactly like training a puppy; a little heedless inattention and it is out of hand immediately; the great… — Emily Post Acquire Copy Share Image
One very great annoyance in open air gatherings is cigar smoke when blown directly in one's face or worse yet the smoke… — Emily Post Air Copy Share Image
Excepting a religious ceremonial, there is no occasion where greater dignity of manner is required of ladies and gentlemen both, than in… — Emily Post Boxes Copy Share Image
“The most advertised commodity is not always intrinsically the best; but is sometimes merely the product of a company, with plenty of… — Emily Post Business Copy Share Image
She must not swing her arms as though they were dangling ropes; she must not switch herself this way and that; she… — Emily Post Being a woman Copy Share Image
To be a good sportsman, one must be a stoic and never show rancor in defeat, or triumph in victory, or irritation,… — Emily Post Annoyance Copy Share Image
Houses without personality are a series of walled enclosures with furniture standing around in them. Other houses are filled with things of… — Emily Post Atmosphere Copy Share Image
Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them. — Emily Post Doe Copy Share Image
Any child can be taught to be beautifully behaved with no effort greater than quiet patience and perseverance, whereas to break bad… — Emily Post Bad habit Copy Share Image
The joy of joys is the person of light but unmalicious humor. If you know any one who is gay, beguiling and… — Emily Post Amusing Copy Share Image
Manner is personality—the outward manifestation of one’s innate character and attitude toward life. — Emily Post Attitude Copy Share Image
People who picnic along the public highway leaving a clutter of greasy paper and swill (not a pretty name, but neither is… — Emily Post Breeding Copy Share Image
To make a pleasant and friendly impression is not alone good manners, but equally good business. — Emily Post Business Copy Share Image
“The best ingredients for likeableness are a happy expression of countenance, an unaffected manner, and a sympathetic attitude.” — Emily Post Happiness Copy Share Image
Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It… — Emily Post Embrace Copy Share Image
The only occasion when the traditions of courtesy permit a hostess to help herself before a woman guest is when she has… — Emily Post Believe Copy Share Image
The attributes of a great lady may still be found in the rule of the four S's: Sincerity, Simplicity, Sympathy, and Serenity. — Emily Post Attributes Copy Share Image
The natural impulses of every thoroughbred include his sense of honor; his love of fair play and courage; his dislike of pretense… — Emily Post Cheapness Copy Share Image
