The attributes of a great lady may still be found in the rule of the four S's Sincerity, Simplicity, Sympathy and Serenity.
More Quotes from 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
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
To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.
Emily Post
Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.
Emily Post
The good guest is almost invisible, enjoying him or herself, communing with fellow guests, and, most of all, enjoying the generous hospitality of the hosts
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
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Simplicity Quotes, Sincerity QuotesI am interested in the notion that people can become so obsessed by their world that they lose sense and awareness of how they appear to other people. They're so earnest about it. But that's true of so many things.
Christopher Guest
Yet we act as if simple cause and effect is at work. We push to find the one simple reason things have gone wrong. We look for the one action, or the one person, that created this mess. As soon as we find someone to blame, we act as if we've solved the problem.
Margaret J. Wheatley
We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
Aldous Huxley