101 Quotes by Emily Post

Jealousy is the suspicion of one’s own inferiority.

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.

Never say “Au revoir” unless you have been talking French, or are speaking to a French person.

The attributes of a great lady may still be found in the rule of the four S’s: Sincerity, Simplicity, Sympathy, and Serenity.

To tell a lie in cowardice, to tell a lie for gain, or to avoid deserved punishment – are all the blackest of black lies.

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

There is a big deposit of sympathy in the bank of love, but don’t draw out little sums every hour or so – so that by and by, when perhaps you need it badly, it is all drawn out and you yourself don’t know how or on what it was spent.

Nothing appeals to children more than justice, and they should be taught in the nursery to “play fair” in games, to respect each other’s property and rights, to give credit to others, and not to take too much credit to themselves.

Bread is like dressed, hats and shoes – in other words, essential!