Amy Vanderbilt Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“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
“Parents must get across the idea that "I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior."”
-- Amy Vanderbilt

#Love You #Ideas #Parent
“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
“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
“In Hollywood, not to have an analyst is virtually an admission of failure ...”
-- Amy Vanderbilt

#Hollywood #Analysts #Admission
“Breakfast is the one meal at which it is permissible to read the paper ...”
-- Amy Vanderbilt

#Meals #Paper #Breakfast
“The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.”
-- Amy Vanderbilt

#Modern #Should
“Do not smoke without asking permission or sit so near (as in a train) that the smoke might annoy.”
-- Amy Vanderbilt

#Asking #Might #Annoying
“Do not speak of repulsive matters at table.”
-- Amy Vanderbilt

#Tables #Matter #Speak
“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
“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
“One face to the world, another at home - makes for misery.”
-- Amy Vanderbilt

#Life #Home #World
“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
“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

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