Amy Vanderbilt quotes

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

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

It's pretty cliffy there, ... I don't know how steep it was. It may have been a cliff, because it took five hours to get them up and out.
- Amy Vanderbilt

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

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

It's a growing recommendation that we need to provide access for all park users, especially in parks that are less developed and rugged, like Glacier.
- Amy Vanderbilt

The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.
- Amy Vanderbilt

Breakfast is the one meal at which it is permissible to read the paper.
- Amy Vanderbilt

In Hollywood, not to have an analyst is virtually an admission of failure.
- Amy Vanderbilt

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

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

Everyone knows that a man can always marry even if he reaches 102, is penniless, and has all his faculties gone. There is always some woman willing to take a chance on him.
- Amy Vanderbilt

Do not speak of repulsive matters at table.
- Amy Vanderbilt

One face to the world, another at home – makes for misery.
- Amy Vanderbilt

What we know, ... is that two hikers on the Grinnell Glacier Trail, at about 10 a. m., had a close encounter with a sow grizzly bear and two cubs. They did sustain bear bites, they dropped and rolled to avoid the attack, and they fell 30 feet down an embankment.
- Amy Vanderbilt

We will have personnel working on this all weekend, ... The boulder is going to require blasting to remove it. We're hoping that will happen today or Sunday at the latest.
- Amy Vanderbilt