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
Topics: Manners
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
Topics: Conversation
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
Topics: Manners, Awareness
Bread is like dressed, hats and shoes — in other words, essential!
—Emily Post
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
Topics: Cooking, Eating
To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.
—Emily Post
Topics: Conformity
A little praise is not only merest justice but is beyond the purse of no one.
—Emily Post
Topics: Praise
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