Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them.
Emily PostAn overdose of praise is like 10 lumps of sugar in coffee; only a very few people can swallow it.
Emily PostAlas! it is true: "Be polite to bores and so shall you have bores always round about you."
Emily PostTraining a child is exactly like training a puppy; a little heedless inattention and it is out of hand immediately; the great thing is not to let it acquire bad habits that must afterward be broken.
Emily PostOne very great annoyance in open air gatherings is cigar smoke when blown directly in one's face or worse yet the smoke from a smouldering cigar. It is almost worthy of a study in air currents to discover why with plenty of space all around, a tiny column of smoke will make straight for the nostrils of the very one most nauseated by it!
Emily Post