Emily Post Etiquette Quotes & Sayings

The higher nature in man always seeks for something which transcends itself and yet is its deepest truth; which claims all its sacrifice, yet makes this sacrifice its own recompense. This is man's dharma, man's religion, and man's self is the vessel. — Rabindranath Tagore

am inclined rather to approve the practice of singing in church, although I do not offer an irrevocable opinion on it, so that through the pleasure afforded the ears the weaker mind may rise to feelings of devotion. However, when it so happens that I am moved more by the singing than by what is sung, I confess that I have sinned, in — Augustine Of Hippo

One thing that unites us all, one thing is universal among the human species; the anatomy. Big, small, fat, thin, colour or creed are irrelevant. Under the skin, under the flesh, we are one and the same. We desire the same things; love, money, power. All the things we can not have, not without cost. — Rob Shepherd

The devil wanders into my soul. — PJ Harvey

Grammar is nothing
But a slave-master of words:
Unchain your language! — Noel Shafi

Emily Post's Etiquette is out again, this time in a new and an enlarged edition, and so the question of what to do with my evenings has been all fixed up for me. — Dorothy Parker

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

I'm quite certain offering to carry out a contract killing violates at least two of Emily Post's etiquette rules."--Sloane Barrett, Killer Curves — Naima Simone

Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find it in the traditional myths and their rationalizations. — Aldous Huxley

Who knows if to live is to be dead, and to be dead, to live? And we really, it may be, are dead; in fact I once heard sages say that we are now dead, and the body is our tomb ... — Socrates

I grew up playing 'Mortal Kombat' as a kid. I was always a fan of the video game. Saw the movies as a kid as well. — Brian Tee

Meanwhile in my head, I'm undergoing open-heart surgery. — Anne Sexton

Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them; manner is personality - the outward manifestation of one's innate character and attitude toward life ... Etiquette must, if it is to be of more than trifling use, include ethics as well as manners. Certainly what one is, is of far greater importance than what one appears to be. — Emily Post

If we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can follow our own individual enlightenment and let the rest of the world go to hell, so to speak. — Satish Kumar

I went to Huddersfield University Business School. That's where I learned my trade. — Rob James-Collier

Democracy is that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith. — Jane Addams

Composing gives me great pleasure ... there is nothing that surpasses the joy of creation, if only because through it one wins hours of self-forgetfulness, when one lives in a world of sound. — Clara Schumann

Whenever two people come together and their behavior affects one another, you have etiquette. — Emily Post

No rule of etiquette is of less importance than which fork we use. — Emily Post

Etiquette requires the presumption of good until the contrary is proved. — Emily Post

"Keep your hands to yourself!" might almost be put at the head of the first chapter of every book on etiquette. — Emily Post