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
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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.
children hands broken
Training a child is exactly like training a puppy; a little heedless inattention and it is out of hand immediately; the great thing is not to let it acquire bad habits that must afterward be broken.
justice littles purses
A little praise is not only merest justice but is beyond the purse of no one.
wise party gay
The joy of joys is the person of light but unmalicious humor. If you know any one who is gay, beguiling and amusing, you will, if you are wise, do everything you can to make him prefer your house and your table to any other; for where he is, the successful party is also.
car tables driving
Never take more than your share - whether of the road in driving your car, of chairs on a boat or seats on a train, or food at the table.
religious gentleman opera
Excepting a religious ceremonial, there is no occasion where greater dignity of manner is required of ladies and gentlemen both, than in occupying a box at the opera. For a gentleman especially no other etiquette is so exacting.