Amy Vanderbilt Quotes

• 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

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

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• Parents must get across the idea that "I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior."

  Amy Vanderbilt

  Love, Ideas, Parent

  Amy Vanderbilt, Letitia Baldrige (1978). “The Amy Vanderbilt complete book of etiquette: a guide to contemporary living”, Doubleday Books

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• 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

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• 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

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• The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.

  Amy Vanderbilt

  Women, Modern, Should

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• One face to the world, another at home - makes for misery.

  Amy Vanderbilt

  Life, Home, World

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

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• 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

  Amy Vanderbilt, Letitia Baldrige (1978). “The Amy Vanderbilt complete book of etiquette: a guide to contemporary living”, Doubleday Books

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• I have no use for people who exhibit manners.

  Amy Vanderbilt

  People, Use, Manners

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• 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

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

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• 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

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• Breakfast is the one meal at which it is permissible to read the paper.

  Amy Vanderbilt

  Meals, Paper, Breakfast

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

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• Ceremony is-really a protection, too, in times of emotional involvement, particularly at death. If we have a social formula to guide us and do not have to extemporize, we feel better able to handle life.

  Amy Vanderbilt

  Feel Better, Emotional, Able

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

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• 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

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

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• Do not smoke without asking permission or sit so near (as in a train) that the smoke might annoy.

  Amy Vanderbilt

  Asking Permission, Might, Annoying

  Amy Vanderbilt (1967). “Amy Vanderbilt's Everyday Etiquette”

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• In Hollywood, not to have an analyst is virtually an admission of failure.

  Amy Vanderbilt

  Hollywood, Analysts, Admission

  Amy Vanderbilt (1963). “Amy Vanderbilt's New Complete Book of Etiquette: The Guide to Gracious Living”

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• Do not speak of repulsive matters at table.

  Amy Vanderbilt

  Women, Tables, Matter

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

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