Amy Vanderbilt famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.
-- Amy Vanderbilt

#Good Man #Emotion #Manners
Parents must get across the idea that "I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior."
-- Amy Vanderbilt

#Love You #Ideas #Parent
When we learn to give thanks, we are learning to concentrate not on the bad things, but on the good things in our lives.
-- Amy Vanderbilt

#Gratitude #Giving #Thanks
Only a great fool or a great genius is likely to flout all social grace with impunity, and neither one, doing so, makes the most comfortable companion.
-- Amy Vanderbilt

#Grace #Genius #Fool
In Hollywood, not to have an analyst is virtually an admission of failure ...
-- Amy Vanderbilt

#Hollywood #Analysts #Admission
Breakfast is the one meal at which it is permissible to read the paper ...
-- Amy Vanderbilt

#Meals #Paper #Breakfast
The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.
-- Amy Vanderbilt

#Modern #Should
Do not smoke without asking permission or sit so near (as in a train) that the smoke might annoy.
-- Amy Vanderbilt

#Asking #Might #Annoying
Do not speak of repulsive matters at table.
-- Amy Vanderbilt

#Tables #Matter #Speak
We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may never be if we are to live pleasantly with our fellow man.
-- Amy Vanderbilt

#Men #Fellow Man #May
I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what traditions they have discarded, what compromises they have made.
-- Amy Vanderbilt

#People #Trying #Fields
One face to the world, another at home - makes for misery.
-- Amy Vanderbilt

#Life #Home #World
Everyone knows that a man can marry even if he reaches the age of 102, is penniless, and has all his facilities gone. There is always some woman willing to take a chance on him.
-- Amy Vanderbilt

#Funny #Women #Age
The best-dressed women I know pay very little attention to the picayune aspects of fashion, but they have a sound understanding of style.
-- Amy Vanderbilt

#Fashion #Understanding #Style

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