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Manner is personality - the outward manifestation of one's innate character and attitude toward life. — Emily Post

To tell a lie in cowardice, to tell a lie for gain, or to avoid deserved punishment
are all the blackest of black lies. — Emily Post

If God had intended for women to wear slacks, He would have constructed them differently. — Emily Post

I would have liked to know what Emily Post had to recommend in a situation like this, but as Miss Post wasn't present, I was forced to improvise. — Diana Gabaldon

Jealousy is the suspicion of one's own inferiority. — Emily Post

Because that's where I keep my Great Big Book of Manners by Emily Post and I want to beat you with it. — Susan Bischoff

Bread is like dressed, hats and shoes - in other words, essential! — Emily Post

"Keep your hands to yourself!" might almost be put at the head of the first chapter of every book on etiquette. — Emily Post

No rule of etiquette is of less importance than which fork we use. — Emily Post

The fault of bad taste is usually in over-dressing. Quality not effect, is the standard to seek for. — Emily Post

Etiquette requires the presumption of good until the contrary is proved. — Emily Post

Manners are like primary colors, there are certain rules and once you have these you merely mix, i.e., adapt, them to meet changing situations. — Emily Post

The most vulgar slang is scarcely worse than the attempted elegance which those unused to good society imagine to be the evidence of cultivation. — Emily Post

Never so long as you live, write a letter to a man - no matter who he is - that you would be ashamed to see in a newspaper above your signature. — Emily Post

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use. — Emily Post

Never think, because you cannot write a letter easily, that it is better not to write at all. The most awkward note imaginable is better than none. — Emily Post

Never say "Au revoir" unless you have been talking French, or are speaking to a French person. — Emily Post

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. — Emily Post

Who does not dislike a "boneless" hand extended as though it were a spray of sea-weed, or a miniature boiled pudding? — Emily Post

An overdose of praise is like 10 lumps of sugar in coffee; only a very few people can swallow it. — Emily Post

Rather be frumpy than vulgar! Much. Frumps are often celebrities in disguise
but a person of vulgar appearance is vulgar all through. — Emily Post

Alas! it is true: "Be polite to bores and so shall you have bores always round about you." — Emily Post

Emily Post says that talking about oneself isn't very polite.' 'I'm sure Miss Post is perfectly correct, but that doesn't seem to stop the rest of us. — Amor Towles

To make a pleasant and friendly impression is not only good manners, but equally good business. — Emily Post

To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule. — Emily Post

Whenever two people come together and their behavior affects one another, you have etiquette. — Emily Post

A little praise is not only merest justice but is beyond the purse of no one. — Emily Post

A gentleman does not boast about his junk. — Emily Post

A gentleman should never take his hat off with a flourish. — Emily Post

A lady never asks a gentleman to dance, or to go to supper with her. — Emily Post

Custom is a mutable thing; yet we readily recognize the permanence of certain social values. Graciousness and courtesy are never old-fashioned. — Emily Post

It is impossible for a hatless woman to be chic. — Emily Post

Never do anything that is unpleasant to others. — Emily Post

I'm quite certain offering to carry out a contract killing violates at least two of Emily Post's etiquette rules."--Sloane Barrett, Killer Curves — Naima Simone

I love it when the Bible gives Emily Post-like tips that are both wise and easy to follow. — A. J. Jacobs

The attributes of a great lady may still be found in the rule of the four S's: Sincerity, Simplicity, Sympathy and Serenity. — Emily Post

Courtesy demands that you, when you are a guest, shall show neither annoyance nor disappointment
no matter what happens. — Emily Post

Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor. — Emily Post

The best ingredients for likeableness are a happy expression of countenance, an unaffected manner, and a sympathetic attitude. — Emily Post

Good manners reflect something from inside-an innate sense of consideration for others and respect for self. — Emily Post

The natural impulses of every thoroughbred include his sense of honor; his love of fair play and courage; his dislike of pretense and of cheapness. — Emily Post