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
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.
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.
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.
Breakfast is the one meal at which it is permissible to read the paper ...
In Hollywood, not to have an analyst is virtually an admission of failure ...
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.
The best-dressed women I know pay very little attention to the picayune aspects of fashion, but they have a sound understanding of style.
The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.
Do not speak of repulsive matters at table.
We received 4.4 inches of rain, compared to a 10-year mean of 2.14 inches.
We don't really know much about their condition, ... other than that they had some bear bites and possibly other trauma from the fall. We just don't know the extent of their injuries yet.
What we know, ... is that two hikers on the Grinnell Glacier Trail, at about 10 a.m., had a close encounter with a sow grizzly bear and two cubs. They did sustain bear bites, they dropped and rolled to avoid the attack, and they fell 30 feet down an embankment.
We will have personnel working on this all weekend, ... The boulder is going to require blasting to remove it. We're hoping that will happen today or Sunday at the latest.