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 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
The only occasion when the traditions of courtesy permit a hostess to help herself before a woman guest is when she has… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
Manner is personality—the outward manifestation of one’s innate character and attitude toward life. — Emily Post Attitude Copy Share Image
The most vulgar slang is scarcely worse than the attempted elegance which those unused to good society imagine to be the evidence… — Emily Post Beauty Copy Share Image
Never think, because you cannot write a letter easily, that it is better not to write at all. The most awkward note… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
Never say "Au revoir" unless you have been talking French, or are speaking to a French person. — Emily Post Copy Share Image
Custom is a mutable thing; yet we readily recognize the permanence of certain social values. Graciousness and courtesy are never old-fashioned. — Emily Post 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
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
The honor of a gentleman demands the inviolability of his word, and the incorruptibility of his principles. He is the descendent of… — Emily Post Champion 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 Copy Share Image
In popular houses where visitors like to go again and again, there is always a happy combination of some attention on the… — Emily Post Attention Copy Share Image
There is a big deposit of sympathy in the bank of love, but don't draw out little sums every hour or so… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
Children are all more or less little monkeys in that they imitate everything they see. If their mother treats them exactly as… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
To tell a lie in cowardice, to tell a lie for gain, or to avoid deserved punishment--are all the blackest of black… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
Alas! it is true: "Be polite to bores and so shall you have bores always round about you." — Emily Post 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 Copy Share Image
The good guest is almost invisible, enjoying him or herself, communing with fellow guests, and, most of all, enjoying the generous hospitality… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
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
Whenever two people come together and their behavior affects one another, you have etiquette. — Emily Post Behavior Copy Share Image
Unconsciousness of self is not so much unselfishness as it is the mental ability to extinguish all thought of one's self -… — Emily Post Ability Copy Share Image
Never so long as you live, write a letter to a man - no matter who he is - that you would… — Emily Post Ashamed Copy Share Image
The fault of bad taste is usually in over-dressing. Quality not effect, is the standard to seek for. — Emily Post Copy Share Image
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… — Emily Post Body Copy Share Image
Courtesy demands that you, when you are a guest, shall show neither annoyance nor disappointment--no matter what happens. — Emily Post Annoyance Copy Share Image
Good manners reflect something from inside-an innate sense of consideration for others and respect for self. — Emily Post Consideration Copy Share Image
Golf is a particularly severe strain upon the amiability of the average person's temper, and in no other game, except bridge, is… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
Rather be frumpy than vulgar! Much. Frumps are often celebrities in disguise -- but a person of vulgar appearance is vulgar all… — Emily Post 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 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
