Category: Addendum To Emily Post

Addendum to Emily Post, #14

12/18/2019

“Well-bred people might drop you if your behavior [becomes] offensive, but they [do] not try to reform you.”

Robert Westbrook, Intimate Lies, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sheilah Graham, Her Son's Story

A Day at the Races; Illustration by René Bouët-Willaumez

Image Credit: Society in Vogue

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Addendum to Emily Post, #13

4/23/2016

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“Americans frequently tell me that they consider London to be the most civilized city in the world. Possibly it is, but we must never forget that politeness is a way of dealing with people whom you do not like.”

Quentin Crisp, How to Go to the Movies

Theatre Ensemble by Digby Morton, 1952, Photograph by John French

Image Credit: The Golden Age of Couture, Paris and London 1947-57

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Addendum to Emily Post, #13

4/3/2016

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“It is not easy—perhaps not even desirable—to judge people by a consistent standard. Conduct obnoxious, even unbearable, in one person may be readily tolerated in another.”

Anthony Powell, A Question of Upbringing

Photograph by Alison Jackson

Image Credit: Private: Photographs by Alison Jackson

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Addendum to Emily Post, #12

3/17/2016

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“One says either ‘wine’ or ‘white wine.”

Niki de Gunzburg, as quoted by Nicky Haslam in Redeeming Features

Niki de Gunzburg by Horst P. Horst

Image Credit: Horst, His Work and His World

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ADDENDUM TO EMILY POST, #11

3/10/2016

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“Let me observe that in moments of high emotion—whether they’re triggered by anger or envy, humiliation or resentment—if the next thing you’re going to say makes you feel better, then it’s probably the wrong thing to say.”

Amor Towles, The Rules of Civility

Ernst Dryden for Die Dame

Image Credit: Divinely Elegant, The World of Ernst Dryden

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ADDENDUM TO EMILY POST, #10

7/9/2015

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"My dear, a lack of compassion can be as vulgar as an excess of tears."

Dowager Countess of Grantham to Her Granddaughter, Downton Abbey

A Scene from "Downtown Abbey"

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ADDENDUM TO EMILY POST, #6

6/4/2014

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"The only person that has a right to be temperamental in a house is the cook."

Elsie de Wolfe, via Ludwig Bemelmans, Bemelmans' La Bonne Table

Elsie de Wolfe (1915) by Albert Sterner

"Bemelmans' La Bonne Table"

Image Credit: Christie's Los Angeles, Innovators of Twentieth Century Style, 15 September 1999

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ADDENDUM TO EMILY POST, #5

6/2/2014

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“Feel as you like and think as you please, but never let them know. When you’re having a good time act bored. When you are having a miserable time be gay.”

J.P. McEvoy, Society

Norwegian Twins Paul and Lief; Photograph by Jerome Zerbe

Image Credit: People on Parade

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ADDENDUM TO EMILY POST, #4

6/2/2014

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"Why do people say, ‘Don’t try to be funny?’ It seems the least one can do?"

Lady Diana Cooper, via Nicky Haslam, Redeeming Features

Lady Diana Cooper

"Redeeming Features: A Memoir"

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ADDENDUM TO EMILY POST, #3

5/1/2014

"On television and in night club shows when a girl asks me, 'If the engagement is broken, do I have to give back the ring?' I answer, 'By all means! Give back the ring but keep the stone.'"

Zsa Zsa Gabor, How to Catch a Man

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