Alas Quote by Emily Post

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others.

— Emily Post

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you…

— Emily Post

An overdose of praise is like 10 lumps of sugar in coffee; only a very few people can swallow it.

— Emily Post

“Persons under the shock of genuine affliction are not only upset mentally but are all unbalanced physically. No matter how calm and controlled they…

— Emily Post

A little praise is not only merest justice but is beyond the purse of no one.

— Emily Post

To make a pleasant and friendly impression is not only good manners, but equally good business.

— Emily Post

Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them; manner is personality…

— Emily Post

Training a child is exactly like training a puppy; a little heedless inattention and it is out of hand immediately; the great thing is…

— Emily Post

One very great annoyance in open air gatherings is cigar smoke when blown directly in one's face or worse yet the smoke from a…

— Emily Post

Excepting a religious ceremonial, there is no occasion where greater dignity of manner is required of ladies and gentlemen both, than in occupying a…

— Emily Post

“The most advertised commodity is not always intrinsically the best; but is sometimes merely the product of a company, with plenty of money to…

— Emily Post

She must not swing her arms as though they were dangling ropes; she must not switch herself this way and that; she must not…

— Emily Post