List of Emily Post Quotes

The Fault Of Bad Taste Is Usually In Over-dressing. Quality Not Effect, Is The Standard To Seek For.

The Eleventh Commandment, "thou Shalt Not Be Found Out" Is Despicable, But Nevertheless, It Is The One Thing You Can Never Get Away From.

To Do Exactly As Your Neighbors Do Is The Only Sensible Rule.

One Very Great Annoyance In Open Air Gatherings Is Cigar Smoke When Blown Directly In One's Face Or Worse Yet The Smoke From A Smouldering Cigar. It Is Almost Worthy Of A Study In Air Currents To Discover Why With Plenty Of Space All Around, A Tiny Column Of Smoke Will Make Straight For The Nostrils Of The Very One Most Nauseated By It!

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.

Manners Are Made Up Of Trivialities Of Deportment Which Can Be Easily Learned If One Does Not Happen To Know Them.

Rather Be Frumpy Than Vulgar! Much. Frumps Are Often Celebrities In Disguise -- But A Person Of Vulgar Appearance Is Vulgar All Through.

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.

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.

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.

There Is A Big Deposit Of Sympathy In The Bank Of Love, But Don't Draw Out Little Sums Every Hour Or So - So That By And By, When Perhaps You Need It Badly, It Is All Drawn Out And You Yourself Don't Know How Or On What It Was Spent.

Unconsciousness Of Self Is Not So Much Unselfishness As It Is The Mental Ability To Extinguish All Thought Of One's Self - Exactly As One Turns Out The Light.