Quotes by Amy Vanderbilt

• Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.
• 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.
• The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperone.
• 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.