Amy Vanderbilt Quotes

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

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

Amy Vanderbilt
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
Insisting on playing a game for which, after a fair amount of time, you show no natural aptitude is frustrating to you and annoying to all but the most complacent opponents.

Amy Vanderbilt
In Hollywood, not to have an analyst is virtually an admission of failure.

Amy Vanderbilt
Everyone knows that a man can always marry even if he reaches 102, is penniless, and has all his faculties gone. There is always some woman willing to take a chance on him.

Amy Vanderbilt
Breakfast is the one meal at which it is permissible to read the paper.

Amy Vanderbilt
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
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