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

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

To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a ‘home’ might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation. — Emily Post

The only occasion when the traditions of courtesy permit a hostess to help herself before a woman guest is when she has reason to believe the food is poisoned. — Emily Post

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

I just liked girls because I couldn’t help not to. — Emily M. Danforth

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. — 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

I also waited to feel like myself, as if it would land on me all at once, this feeling like I was me again because I was home. And it didn’t come. — Emily M. Danforth

Consideration for the rights and feelings of others is not merely a rule for behavior in public but the very foundation upon which social life is built. — Emily Post

When you run into yourself, you run into feelings you never thought you had. — Emily M. Danforth

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

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

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

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

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 eleventh commandment, ‘Thou shalt not be found out’ is despicable, but nevertheless, it is the one thing you can never get away from. — Emily Post

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

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

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

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

Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them. — Emily Post

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

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

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