Emily Post Quotes

Share everything. Don't take things that aren't yours. Put things back where you found them.

When you've finished using a car, put the f***ing seat back, so humans can use it afterwards.

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

When you take the elevator to the top, please remember to send it back down so someone else might use it.

In my book, all manners are is thinking of somebody else.

I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days.

It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.

I quite like it when I'm on the Tube and people offer me their seat. Sometimes I take it. The other day I was offered a seat by a pregnant lady. I thought, 'That's going a bit far.'

As youngsters, my mother taught her children that while we might not be the smartest people around, we could be courteous, polite and considerate of others.

Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car.

To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.

We definitely don't want to get in others' way while we're competing.

Politeness is the result of good sense and good nature.

Never do anything that is unpleasant to others.

My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous. So when we got on a bus, he would always encourage me and my younger brother to get up and offer our seat to an old lady. I grew up kind of liking that, thinking, y'know, that's a nice thing, that's a courtesy.

Behave when away from home as though you were in the presence of an honored guest. Employ the people as though you were assisting at an important sacrifice. Do not do to others what you would not like yourself. Then there will be no feelings of opposition to you, whether it is the affairs of a state that you are handling or the affairs of a family.

Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.

It seems to me that the spirit of politeness is a certain attention in causing that, by our words and by our manners, others may be content with us and with themselves.

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

I grew up being taught, 'Do unto others as they would do unto you.' I would get scolded for not being polite.

My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet.

The greater the controversy, the more you need manners.

The only true source of politeness is consideration.

But my father was also the one who told me I needed to clean up my mouth or I'd never find a man. What's very important to him is manners. Show up on time. Always send thank-you letters. He is one of the more thoughtful humans I've ever met. He's a great man and a very good dad.

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.