Amy Vanderbilt Quotes

I have no use for people who exhibit manners.

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

The woman Bo Johnson intended to marry was Maude Alexander, an opera singer and heiress to a considerable fortune. She was the granddaughter of Thaddeus Morley and the daughter of Rudolf Alexander. The Morleys and Alexanders have become synonymous with names like Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, and Carnegie in New York,” Barry Gray informs the audience. “Powerful people,” Benny agrees. “They didn’t care for the song?” “No, Mr. Gray, they didn’t.

If you smoke on a sailboat, flip your ashes or discard your cigarette on the side the sail is on, so the wind won’t blow sparks or ashes or butts back into the boat. —Amy Vanderbilt’s Complete Book of Etiquette,

Tea is the ultimate form of hospitality.” - AMY VANDERBILT