Emily Post famous quotes

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 #Use #Matter

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. This is the only way to take life - this is also 'playing' the game!
-- Emily Post

#Inspirational #Motivational #Hurt

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

#Two #People #Together

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

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

#Attitude #Character #Personality

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

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

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

#Justice #Littles #Purses

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

#Self #Consideration #Manners

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

#Good Man #Friendly #Good Business

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

#Truth #Honesty #Coffee

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others.
-- Emily Post

#Feelings #Awareness #Sensitive

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

The fault of bad taste is usually in over-dressing. Quality not effect, is the standard to seek for.
-- Emily Post

#Quality #Taste #Faults

In popular houses where visitors like to go again and again, there is always a happy combination of some attention on the part of the hostess and the perfect freedom of the guests to occupy their time as they choose.
-- Emily Post

#Perfect #House #Attention

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

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

The natural impulses of every thoroughbred include his sense of honor; his love of fair play and courage; his dislike of pretense and of cheapness.
-- Emily Post

#Play #Honor #His Love

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

The joy of joys is the person of light but unmalicious humor.
-- Emily Post

#Humor #Light #Joy

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

#Courtesy #Manners #Social

Rather be frumpy than vulgar! Much. Frumps are often celebrities in disguise -- but a person of vulgar appearance is vulgar all through.
-- Emily Post

#Appearance #Vulgar #Disguise

No rule of etiquette is of less importance than which fork we use.
-- Emily Post

#Use #Culinary #Forks

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

#Disappointment #Demand #Guests

To tell a lie in cowardice, to tell a lie for gain, or to avoid deserved punishment-are all the blackest of black lies. On the other hand, to teach one to try one's best to avoid the truth-even to press it when necessary toward the outer edge of the rainbow-for a reason of kindness, or of mercy, is far closer to the heart of truth than to repeat something accurately and mercilessly that will cruelly hurt the feelings of someone.
-- Emily Post

#Hurt #Kindness #Lying

To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a 'home' might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.
-- Emily Post

#Home #Men #House

Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.
-- Emily Post

#Believe #Worry #Oratory

Jealousy is the suspicion of one's own inferiority.
-- Emily Post

#Envy #Inferiority #Suspicion

The eleventh commandment, "Thou shalt not be found out" is despicable, but nevertheless, it is the one thing you can never get away from.
-- Emily Post

#Lying #Dishonesty #Found

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

The good guest is almost invisible, enjoying him or herself, communing with fellow guests, and, most of all, enjoying the generous hospitality of the hosts.
-- Emily Post

#Guests #Host #Hospitality

The letter we all love to receive is one that carries so much of the writer’s personality that she seems to be sitting beside us, looking at us directly and talking just as she really would, could she have come on a magic carpet, instead of sending her proxy in ink-made characters on mere paper.
-- Emily Post

#Character #Talking #Personality

A gentleman does not boast about his junk.
-- Emily Post

#Gentleman #Junk #Doe

There is no reason why you should be bored when you can be otherwise. But if you find yourself sitting in the hedgerow with nothing but weeds, there is no reason for shutting your eyes and seeing nothing, instead of finding what beauty you may in the weeds. To put it cynically, life is too short to waste it in drawing blanks. Therefore, it is up to you to find as many pictures to put on your blank pages as possible.
-- Emily Post

#Weed #Life Is Too Short #Eye

Etiquette requires the presumption of good until the contrary is proved.
-- Emily Post

#Etiquette #Presumption

Bread is like dressed, hats and shoes - in other words, essential!
-- Emily Post

#Shoes #Essentials #Bread

To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.
-- Emily Post

#Neighbor #Sensible

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

To be a good sportsman, one must be a stoic and never show rancor in defeat, or triumph in victory, or irritation, no matter what annoyance is encountered. One who can not help sulking, or explaining, or protesting when the loser, or exulting when the winner, has no right to take part in games or contests.
-- Emily Post

#Sports #Irritation #Games