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.
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
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
Breakfast is the one meal at which it is permissible to read the paper. - Amy Vanderbilt
Breakfast is the one meal at which it is permissible to read the paper.
One face to the world, another at home - makes for misery. - Amy Vanderbilt
One face to the world, another at home - makes for misery.
The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon. - Amy Vanderbilt
The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.
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 c… - Amy Vanderbilt
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 c…
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 companio… - 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 companio…
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
When we learn to give thanks, we are learning to concentrate not on the bad things, but on the good things in our lives.
Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them. - Amy Vanderbilt
Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.
I have no use for people who exhibit manners. - Amy Vanderbilt
I have no use for people who exhibit manners.
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