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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 -
The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperone.
Amy Vanderbilt
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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 -
Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.
Amy Vanderbilt -
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 -
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 -
One face to the world, another at home - makes for misery.
Amy Vanderbilt -
I have no use for people who exhibit manners.
Amy Vanderbilt
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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 -
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