Emily Post 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

Good, Feelings, Others

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

Science, Important, Nothing

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

Thought, Worry, Ideal

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

Sensible, Rule, Neighbors

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, Woman, Saying

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Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: October 27, 1872

Died: September 25, 1960

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