EMILY POST SAYS: "GOOD MANNERS IS A GOOD THING!"

Take a "que" from the "Diva" herself "Emily Post." The creator of all things manners and then some.

When it comes to laying down the law on what good manners are about; Emily Post is the source that comes to mind.  Her book "Etiquette  in Society, in Business, in Politics, and at Home" is a source for all who want know how to be polite and what to do in public. It's a book all parents and "men" should keep as a staple on their bookshelves.














Emily was the philosopher when it came to offering ways to live; saying "manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them; manner is personality-the outward manifestation of one's innate character and attitude toward life."

Excerpt: A FEW MAXIMS FOR THOSE WHO TALK TO MUCH-AND EASILY!
*The faults of commission are far more serious than those of omisson; regrets are seldom for what you left unsaid.
The chatterer reveals every corner of his shallow mind; one who keeps silent cannot have his depth plumbed.
Don't pretend to know more than you do. To say you have read a book and then seemingly to understand nothing of what you have read, proves you half-wit. Only the very small mind hesitates to say "I don't know."
Above all, stop and think about what you are saying! This is really the first, last and only rule. If you "stop" you can't chatter or expound or flounder ceaselessly, and if you think, you will find a topic and a manner of presenting your topic so that your neighbor will be interested rather than long-suffering.
Remember also that the sympathetic (not apathetic) listener is the delight of delights.  The person who looks glad to see you, who is seemingly eager for your news, or enthralled in your conversation; who looks at you with a kindling of the face, and gives you spontaneous and undivided attention, is the one to whom the palm for the art of conversation would undoubtedly be awarded.* 

For all that want to refine themselves or start your children off on the right foot read "Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics, and at Home" By Emily Post.

Diva's Nation
*Join The Conversation*