Emily Post, 1872 - 1960
Born: 27 October 1872, Baltimore, Maryland
Died: 25 September 1960, New York City
Born Emily Price, she was educated at home and attended Miss Graham's finishing School at New York City. She married Edwin Post and had two sons, then divorced when her husband's infidelity made him a target for blackmail. After her sons were off to boarding school she turned to writing, including newspaper articles on architecture, interior design, and travel, but also stories that were serialized in magazines including Harper's, Scribners, and The Century as well as writing several light novels. Her major work was Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics, and at Home, published in 1922, was a best seller, and was updated and reissued throughout her life. From 1931 she spoke on manners on radio shows and had a syndicated newspaper column that reached 200 newspapers, and founded The Emily Post Institute in 1946. The third and fourth generation of her descendants continue to write and speak on the subject today.
Biography from Wikipedia and New York Times obituary
Emily Post quotes:
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- "Keep your hands to yourself!" might almost be put at the head of the first chapter of every book on etiquette. permalink
Emily Post - A gentleman should never take his hat off with a flourish. permalink
Emily Post - Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics, and at Home (1922) - A lady never asks a gentleman to dance, or to go to supper with her. permalink
Emily Post - Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics, and at Home (1922) - A little praise is not only merest justice but is beyond the purse of no one. permalink
Emily Post - Alas! it is true: "Be polite to bores and so shall you have bores always round about you." permalink
Emily Post - Any child can be taught to be beautifully behaved with no effort greater than quiet patience and perseverance, whereas to break bad habits once they are acquired is a Herculean task. permalink
Emily Post - Children are all more or less little monkeys in that they imitate everything they see. If their mother treats them exactly as she does her visitors they in turn play "visitor" to perfection. Nothing hurts the feelings of children more than not being allowed to behave like grown persons when they think they are able. permalink
Emily Post - Elbows are never put on the table while one is eating. permalink
Emily Post - Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics, and at Home (1922) - Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is honour. permalink
Emily Post - Excepting a religious ceremonial, there is no occasion where greater dignity of manner is required of ladies and gentlemen both, than in occupying a box at the opera. For a gentleman especially no other etiquette is so exacting. permalink
Emily Post - Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory. permalink
Emily Post - Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use. permalink
Emily Post - Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics, and at Home (1922) - 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. permalink
Emily Post - Never do anything that is unpleasant to others. permalink
Emily Post - Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics, and at Home (1922) - Never lose your temper. permalink
Emily Post - Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics, and at Home (1922)
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