Quote

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.

Amy Vanderbilt

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Amy Vanderbilt
Age: 66 †
Born: 1908
Born: July 22
Died: 1974
Died: December 27
Author
Writer
New York City
New York
Amy Osborne Vanderbilt
Made
Traditions
People
Journalist
Compromise
Field
Genteel
Tradition
Compromises
Fields
Discarded
Find
Etiquette
Trying
Regularly

More quotes by Amy Vanderbilt

Image
Do not smoke without asking permission or sit so near (as in a train) that the smoke might annoy.
Amy Vanderbilt
Image
We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may never be if we are to live pleasantly with our fellow man.
Amy Vanderbilt
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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.
Amy Vanderbilt
Image
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.
Amy Vanderbilt
Image
Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.
Amy Vanderbilt
Image
I have no use for people who exhibit manners.
Amy Vanderbilt
Image
In Hollywood, not to have an analyst is virtually an admission of failure.
Amy Vanderbilt
Image
Do not speak of repulsive matters at table.
Amy Vanderbilt
Image
Parents must get across the idea that I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior.
Amy Vanderbilt
Image
The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.
Amy Vanderbilt
Image
Breakfast is the one meal at which it is permissible to read the paper.
Amy Vanderbilt
Image
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.
Amy Vanderbilt
Image
One face to the world, another at home - makes for misery.
Amy Vanderbilt