Has beens Quote by Emily Post Download Open image “Never say "Au revoir" unless you have been talking French, or are speaking to a French person.” — Emily Post ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Has beens Persons Talking
I never say goodbye, I say, “au-revoir.” Goodbye is so final. Au-revoir means I will see you again. — Tao Porchon-Lynch Copy Share Image
By the way, the secret of speaking French is confidence. Whether you are right or wrong, you don't hesitate. — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
I don't think I can repeat any of the French words I know on camera, to be honest. — Ollie Watkins Copy Share Image
This holiday has made me acutely aware I've never knowingly spoken to a French person. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me. — Sean Connery Copy Share Image
But, reader, there is no comfort in the word "farewell," even if you say it in French. "Farewell" is a word that,in any language,… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“The only French word I know is oui, which means “yes,” and only recently did I learn it’s spelled o-u-i and not w-e-e.” — Stephanie Perkins 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 fork you… — 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 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 controlled they… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
A little praise is not only merest justice but is beyond the purse of no one. — Emily Post Copy Share Image
To make a pleasant and friendly impression is not only good manners, but equally good business. — Emily Post 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 is personality… — Emily Post 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 thing is… — Emily Post 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 from a… — Emily Post 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 occupying a… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
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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 Copy Share Image
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During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed over, though… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image