Emily Post
Emily Post
Emily Postwas an American author famous for writing about etiquette...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth27 October 1872
CityBaltimore, MD
CountryUnited States of America
mother hurt children
Children are all more or less little monkeys in that they imitate everything they see. If their mother treats them exactly as she does her visitors they in turn play "visitor" to perfection. Nothing hurts the feelings of children more than not being allowed to behave like grown persons when they think they are able.
shoes bread hats
Bread is like dressed, hats and shoes - in other words, essential!
believe guests helping
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 worry oratory
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.
gentleman doe junk
A gentleman does not boast about his junk.
ifs
If God had intended for women to wear slacks, He would have constructed them differently.
self light ability
Unconsciousness of self is not so much unselfishness as it is the mental ability to extinguish all thought of one's self - exactly as one turns out the light.
Never do anything that is unpleasant to others.
gentleman hats hats-off
A gentleman should never take his hat off with a flourish.
polite bores rounds
Alas! it is true: "Be polite to bores and so shall you have bores always round about you."
gentleman supper asks
A lady never asks a gentleman to dance, or to go to supper with her.
past land names
People who picnic along the public highway leaving a clutter of greasy paper and swill (not a pretty name, but neither is it a pretty object!) for other people to walk or drive past, and to make a breeding place for flies, and furnish nourishment for rats, choose a disgusting way to repay the land-owner for the liberty they took in temporarily occupying his property.
disappointment demand guests
Courtesy demands that you, when you are a guest, shall show neither annoyance nor disappointment--no matter what happens.
envy inferiority suspicion
Jealousy is the suspicion of one's own inferiority.