Amy Vanderbilt Quotes

#1. President Obama says he will not support a healthcare plan where the government gets to decide whether to, quote, 'pull the plug on Grandma.' Apparently, Obama's plan calls for the much quicker pillow option.

Conan O'Brien

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title.

Albert Pike

#5. Your true character Is most accurately measured by how you treat those who can do 'Nothing' for you

Mother Teresa

#6. When we learn to give thanks, we are learning to concentrate not on the bad things, but on the good things in our lives.

Amy Vanderbilt

#7. 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

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

Amy Vanderbilt

#9. Everyone knows that a man can marry even if he reaches the age of 102, is penniless, and has all his facilities gone. There is always some woman willing to take a chance on him.

Amy Vanderbilt

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

Amy Vanderbilt

#11. I have no use for people who exhibit manners.

Amy Vanderbilt

#12. In Hollywood, not to have an analyst is virtually an admission of failure ...

Amy Vanderbilt

#13. How can there ever possibly be a conflict between my private interests and the public good?

Ashleigh Brilliant

#14. 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

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

Amy Vanderbilt

#16. The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? At times, for sure.

Eddie Trunk

#17. Do not speak of repulsive matters at table.

Amy Vanderbilt

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

Amy Vanderbilt

#19. Writer's were supposed to be a litte crazy

S.E. Hinton

#20. 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.

Amy Vanderbilt

#21. A fair feeld ful of folk fond I ther bitwene -Of alle manere of men, the meene and the riche,Werchynge and wandrynge as the world asketh.

William Langland

#22. I accept responsibility for U-boat warfare from 1933 onward, and of the entire navy from 1943 on, but to make me responsible for what happened to Jews in Germany, or Russian soldiers on the east front it is so ridiculous all I can do is laugh.

Karl Donitz

#23. Do not smoke without asking permission or sit so near (as in a train) that the smoke might annoy.

Amy Vanderbilt

#24. Breakfast is the one meal at which it is permissible to read the paper ...

Amy Vanderbilt

#25. The drugstore is a wonderful place to see all manner of ailments.

Lori Lansens