Amy Vanderbilt
Amy Vanderbilt
Amy Vanderbiltwas an American authority on etiquette. In 1952 she published the best-selling book Amy Vanderbilt's Complete Book of Etiquette. The book, later retitled Amy Vanderbilt's Etiquette, has been updated and is still in circulation. The most recent editionwas edited by Nancy Tuckerman and Nancy Dunnan. Its longtime popularity has led to it being considered a standard of etiquette writing...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth22 July 1908
CountryUnited States of America
One face to the world, another at home - makes for misery.
Do not speak of repulsive matters at table.
The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.
The best-dressed women I know pay very little attention to the picayune aspects of fashion, but they have a sound understanding of style.
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.
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.
In Hollywood, not to have an analyst is virtually an admission of failure ...
Ceremony is-really a protection, too, in times of emotional involvement, particularly at death. If we have a social formula to guide us and do not have to extemporize, we feel better able to handle life.
I have no use for people who exhibit manners.
Breakfast is the one meal at which it is permissible to read the paper ...
Do not smoke without asking permission or sit so near (as in a train) that the smoke might annoy.
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.
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.
When we learn to give thanks, we are learning to concentrate not on the bad things, but on the good things in our lives.