"Do not speak of repulsive matters at table."

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Source : Amy Vanderbilt (1954). “Amy Vanderbilt's complete book of etiquette: a guide to gracious living”

Amy Vanderbilt

#Tables Quotes #Matter Quotes #Speak Quotes

“Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting.”
“True character is revealedby the way people react to the bigger challenges in life.”
“Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully - wild - generous, drastic in an unrationed profligacy of self...”
“Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.”
“I have the thermometer in my mouth and I am listening to it all the time.”
“Power is not alluring to pure minds.”
“I didn't want to be an actress. I wanted to be a dentist, but you never know what life will bring you.”
“To have a huge, friendly whale willingly approach your boat and look you straight in the eye is without doubt one of the most extraordinary experiences on the planet.”

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