Emily Post Quotes

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• 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.

  Emily Post

  Feelings, Awareness Of Others, Behaviour

  Reader's Digest, Volume 68, 1956.

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• Good manners reflect something from inside-an innate sense of consideration for others and respect for self.

  Emily Post

  Self, Consideration, Manners

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• The only occasion when the traditions of courtesy permit a hostess to help herself before a woman guest is when she has reason to believe the food is poisoned.

  Emily Post

  Believe, Guests, Helping

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• Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.

  Emily Post

  Honor, Important, Use

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

  Emily Post

  Good Man, Friendly, Good Business

  "Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home".

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• Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them; manner is personality - the outward manifestation of one's innate character and attitude toward life.... Etiquette must, if it is to be of more than trifling use, include ethics as well as manners. Certainly what one is, is of far greater importance than what one appears to be.

  Emily Post

  Attitude, Character, Personality

  Emily Post, Elizabeth L. Post (1984). “Emily Post's Etiquette”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• 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 encounter.

  Emily Post

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hurt

  "Etiquette: "The Blue Book of Social Usage"".

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• 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

  Simplicity, Serenity, Four

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• A gentleman does not boast about his junk.

  Emily Post

  Gentleman, Junk, Doe

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• Never take more than your share - whether of the road in driving your car, of chairs on a boat or seats on a train, or food at the table.

  Emily Post

  Car, Tables, Driving

  Emily Post (1922). “Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”

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• Manner is personality—the outward manifestation of one’s innate character and attitude toward life.

  Emily Post

  Attitude, Character, Personality

  Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.2, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Whenever two people come together and their behavior affects one another, you have etiquette.

  Emily Post

  Two, People, Together

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Never think, because you cannot write a letter easily, that it is better not to write at all. The most awkward note imaginable is better than none.

  Emily Post

  Writing, Thinking, Awkward

  Emily Post (1965). “Etiquette: The Blue Book of Social Usage”

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• Any child can be taught to be beautifully behaved with no effort greater than quiet patience and perseverance, whereas to break bad habits once they are acquired is a Herculean task.

  Emily Post

  Perseverance, Children, Effort

  Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.571, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Manners are like primary colors, there are certain rules and once you have these you merely mix, i.e., adapt, them to meet changing situations.

  Emily Post

  Color, Manners, Certain

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• It is impossible for a hatless woman to be chic.

  Emily Post

  Impossible, Chic

  EMILY POST (1950). “ETIQUETTE”

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• Nothing appeals to children more than justice, and they should be taught in the nursery to "play fair" in games, to respect each other's property and rights, to give credit to others, and not to take too much credit to themselves.

  Emily Post

  Children, Rights, Games

  Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.579, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The honor of a gentleman demands the inviolability of his word, and the incorruptibility of his principles. He is the descendent of the knight, the crusader; he is the defender of the defenseless and the champion of justice--or he is not a gentleman.

  Emily Post

  Knights, Justice, Champion

  Emily Post (1922). “Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”

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• If God had intended for women to wear slacks, He would have constructed them differently.

  Emily Post

  Ifs

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• "Keep your hands to yourself!" might almost be put at the head of the first chapter of every book on etiquette.

  Emily Post

  Book, Hands, Might

  Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.96, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Jealousy is the suspicion of one's own inferiority.

  Emily Post

  Envy, Inferiority, Suspicion

  Emily Post (1905). “Purple & Fine Linen: By Emily Post”

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• Houses without personality are a series of walled enclosures with furniture standing around in them. Other houses are filled with things of little intrinsic value, even with much that is shabby and yet they have that inviting atmosphere.

  Emily Post

  House, Personality, Atmosphere

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• Golf is a particularly severe strain upon the amiability of the average person's temper, and in no other game, except bridge, is serenity of disposition so essential.

  Emily Post

  Golf, Average, Games

  Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.527, Cosimo, Inc.

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• To tell a lie in cowardice, to tell a lie for gain, or to avoid deserved punishment--are all the blackest of black lies.

  Emily Post

  Lying, Punishment, Black

  Emily Post (1959). “Children are people: how to understand and guide your children”

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• Courtesy demands that you, when you are a guest, shall show neither annoyance nor disappointment--no matter what happens.

  Emily Post

  Disappointment, Demand, Guests

  Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.436, Cosimo, Inc.

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