Derek Blasberg Quotes

I think if you've been invited to someone's house, you eat what they serve you. Even if you leave hungry, you be gracious enough to eat what they've prepared.

When writing a thank-you if you've had lunch with someone downtown, send an e-mail. If somebody is giving you a dinner party in his or her home and all the work that takes, that person deserves a written thank-you.

He was so generally civil, that nobody thanked him for it.

Please be polite. Nothing in life should erode the habit of saying thank you to people or praising them.

Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but not thank you?

It's important to always say thank you to your BFF.

I send thank you notes, not emails, even if I'm staying at a friend's house or something. I'm very old school.

If I'm out to dinner with a group of friends, and somebody offers to pay for the check, I immediately reach for my wallet. Inside is a note that says, "Say thanks!"

When Jennie, mother of Winston Churchill invited playwright George Bernard Shaw to lunch, he telegraphed: "Certainly not. What have I done to provoke such an attack on my well-known habits?" She replied, "Know nothing of your habits; hope they are better than your manners."

Good manners, to those one does not love, are no more a breach of truth, than "your humble servant," at the bottom of a challengeis; they are universally agreed upon, and understand to be things of course. They are necessary guards of the decency and peace of society.

I prefer to leave standing up, like a well-mannered guest at a party.

The etiquette question that troubles so many fastidious people New Year's Day is: How am I ever going to face those people again?

Manners are very communicable: men catch them from each other.

That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short--not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation.

His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone as punctilious as himself the correspondence ended only with death.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say.

This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir'd by Precept and Example, of flattering the Pride and Selfishness of others, and concealing our own with Judgment and Dexterity.

Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be plainly observed from decade to decade by those who have an eye for public behavior, which grows visibly.

Thank you, always say thank you; it's the greatest gift you can give someone; because thank you is what you say to God.

People give out compliments because it's polite.

Howard and Shirley were clothed, always, in an invisible layer of decorum that they never laid aside.

If it is a cocktail party, I think bringing your partner, husband or wife is fine. To a certain extent, when someone throws a party, they expect to have people over. If it's a seated dinner, though, you should check beforehand. Asking to bring your partner is fair. Asking to bring eight friends from college is not. A good hostess will always accommodate extras and stragglers, but she'll never forget who brought them.

The civilities of the great are never thrown away.

Appreciation - Learn to give flowers while people are still living

Good general-purpose manners nowadays may be said to consist in knowing how much you can get away with.