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Emily Post

Read through the most famous quotes from Emily Post




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


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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.


— Emily Post


#literature #wisdom #inspirational

Whenever two people come together and their behavior affects one another, you have etiquette.


— Emily Post


#humanity-and-society #relationships #relationship

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


#added #built #chore #cooking #home

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


— Emily Post


#neighbors #only #rule #sensible #your

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


#ethics #etiquette #everything #fork #honor

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


#believe #conversation #eloquent #exchange #exhibition






About Emily Post

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Writing career
When her two sons were old enough to attend boarding school Post began to write. The couple had two sons Edwin Main Post Jr. She is the author of Do I Have to Wear White? Emily Post Answers America’s Top Wedding Questions (Collins 2009) as well as Emily Post’s Wedding Parties: Smart Ideas for Stylish Parties From Engagement to Reception and Everything in Between.

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