Emily Post Quotes

I feel like the quality of privacy and respect of people's personal space has been completely disintegrated. You can ask to take the picture. I will be so glad to take the picture and pose and look good for the picture.

If you see me or another model in a bar, wait until you are spoken to before you speak.

People seem to see no difference between an intimate conversation and a conversation at the water cooler.

I don't mind being recognised, as long as people are nice. I do like meeting people; it's just that some people are a bit disrespectful... Sometimes it's like, I'm having a roast dinner, and someone's taking a picture of me. I don't mind taking pictures, but just ask. Otherwise, it's a bit weird.

I'm not just going to hug every person that asks to hug me.

If I know you, and you want to touch my hair, you should ask me first, and most of the time I'll say yes. But if I don't know you, and you just reach out and touch me without asking or touch while simultaneously asking, I'm going to give you a side eye.

You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your friend’s nose.

You have to realise that touching is a real violation of personal space.

If just one person touches you without your permission, stepping back and saying clearly, "Please don't touch me" should get them to stop.

Madam, you're making history, in fact, you're making me, and I wish you'd keep my hands to yourself

Here's a tip. If you touch a girl, even as joke, and she pushes you off, leave... her... alone. Don't touch her. Anywhere! Just stop. Your touch does nothing but sicken her.

I wish you'd keep my hands to yourself.

By the way, you won't put that thing in about me wanting to have sex on a football pitch, will you?

I like the idea of not everything happening between two human beings to be everyone's property.

I'm more the sort of person who doesn't like hugging strangers because we don't know each other, so we shouldn't.

If someone lacked decency or respect, I didn't allow that person to stay in my world.

Never interrupt me when I'm eating a banana.

I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense, and mental hygiene.

I never cake someone who doesn't want to be caked - at least, I try not to. Sometimes I miss my target. I'm pretty much going through the crowd making sure I find someone who wants to get caked. If you don't want to get caked, shake your head or tell me you don't want to get caked. It's that easy.

Formalized rules of manners were so great because they left no room for basic human haplessness. They allowed us to circumvent our natural boorish tendency to disregard the feelings of others.

People coming up and saying something nice is always welcome. But when you're being secretly photographed, that's not so nice. I would rather shake hands with someone and exchange a few words than take a selfie.

The Australian Book of Etiquette is a very slim volume.

Sometimes, in public life, people ask inappropriate, off-the-wall kinds of questions, don't they?

I don't really want to be in the business of observing conversations.

Anyone should have the right to say no if they don't want someone to kiss them or touch them or date them or anything.