Emily Post Quotes About Manners

Quotes about: Manners

• 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.

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

  Emily Post

  Self, Consideration, Manners

• 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

• Custom is a mutable thing; yet we readily recognize the permanence of certain social values. Graciousness and courtesy are never old-fashioned.

  Emily Post

  Social Values, Courtesy, Manners

  Emily Post (1960). “Etiquette: the blue book of social usage”

• 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".

• Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others.

  Emily Post

  Feelings, Awareness Of Others, Sensitive

  "Reader's Digest" Magazine, Vol. 68, 1956.

• 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

• Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them.

  Emily Post

  Doe, Manners, Made

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

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