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

One face to the world, another at home - makes for misery.

- 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…

- 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

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

The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.

- 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

I have no use for people who exhibit manners.

- Amy Vanderbilt