Emily Post Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

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

  Emily Post

  Attitude, Character, Personality

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

• 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

  Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.502, Cosimo, Inc.

• 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

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