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"29 Emily Post Quotes & Sayings

      American     /    
Born: 27 October 1872. Died: 25 September 1960 | Author | Socialite |

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.

Manners Sensitive Awareness Good
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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. You

Manners Sensitive Awareness Feelings
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Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.

Important Fork Etiquette Science
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To make a pleasant and friendly impression is not only good manners, but equally good business.
Pleasant Friendly Impression Manners
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Never think, because you cannot write a letter easily, that it is better not to write at all. The most awkward note imaginable is better than none.

Think Write Easily Awkward
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The attributes of a great lady may still be found in the rule of the four S's: Sincerity, Simplicity, Sympathy, and Serenity.

Attributes Lady Sincerity Simplicity
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Manner is personality—the outward manifestation of one’s innate character and attitude toward life.

Manner Personality Manifestation Character
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If God had intended for women to wear slacks, He would have constructed them differently.
God Intended Women Wear
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Manners are like primary colors, there are certain rules and once you have these you merely mix, i.e., adapt, them to meet changing situations.

Manners Primary Colors Rules
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A lady never asks a gentleman to dance, or to go to supper with her.
Lady Gentleman Dance Supper
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Jealousy is the suspicion of one's own inferiority

Jealousy Suspicion Own Inferiority
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An overdose of praise is like 10 lumps of sugar in coffee; only a very few people can swallow it.

Overdose Praise Lumps Sugar
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To tell a lie in cowardice, to tell a lie for gain, or to avoid deserved punishment--are all the blackest of black lies.

Lie Cowardice Tell Punishment
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A gentleman should never take his hat off with a flourish.
Gentleman Never Hat Flourish
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Courtesy demands that you, when you are a guest, shall show neither annoyance nor disappointment--no matter what happens.

Courtesy Demand Guest Annoyance
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A little praise is not only merest justice but is beyond the purse of no one.

Praise Little Pursue Justice
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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.

Natural Sense Love Fair
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Bread is like dressed, hats and shoes - in other words, essential!

Bread Dressed Hats Shoes
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Good manners reflect something from inside-an innate sense of consideration for others and respect for self
Manners Reflect Sense Consideration
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Elbows are never put on the table while one is eating.

Elbows Never Table Eating
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A gentleman does not boast about his junk.
Gentleman Boast Junk
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The only occasion when the traditions of courtesy permit a hostess to help herself before a woman guest is when she has reason to believe the food is poisoned. Believe

Occasion Tradition Courtesy Hostess
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It is impossible for a hatless woman to be chic.

Impossible Hatless Woman Chic
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No rule of etiquette is of less importance than which fork we use.
Rule Etiquette Importance Fork
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The most advertised commodity is not always intrinsically the best; but is sometimes merely the product of a company, with plenty of money to spend on advertising.

Money Commodity Intrinsically Best
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Whenever two people come together and their behavior affects one another, you have etiquette.
Behavior Affect Etiquette
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The fault of bad taste is usually in over-dressing. Quality not effect, is the standard to seek for.

Fault Bad Dressing Standard
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Consideration for the rights and feelings of others is not merely a rule for behavior in public but the very foundation upon which social life is built.

Consideration Right Feelings Public
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To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.

Exactly Neighbors Sensible
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Emily Post Quotes & Sayings