Amy Vanderbilt Quotes (11 Quotes)

but if they were, I don't think they used it. There just wasn't time.

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

Our crews have reported that someone did make it up to Logan Pass and they described water running down the middle of the road with standing water in many places.

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.

What we know, ... is that two hikers on the Grinnell Glacier Trail, at about 10 a. m., had a close encounter with a sow grizzly bear and two cubs. They did sustain bear bites, they dropped and rolled to avoid the attack, and they fell 30 feet down an embankment.

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

Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.

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.

Parents must get across the idea that I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior.

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.

We will have personnel working on this all weekend, ... The boulder is going to require blasting to remove it. We're hoping that will happen today or Sunday at the latest.