"Amy Vanderbilt" was an United States/American authority on etiquette. In 1952 she published the best-selling book Amy Vanderbilt's Complete Book of Etiquette. The booklater retitled Amy Vanderbilt's Etiquettehas been updated and is still in circulation. The most recent edition (ISBN 0-385-41342-4) was edited by Nancy Tuckerman and Nancy Dunnan. Its longtime popularity has led to it being considered a standard of etiquette writing.

She is also the author or collector of cooking materials, including the 1961 book Amy Vanderbilt's Complete Cook Book illustrated by Andy Warhol. This cookbook's illustrations are attributed to "Andrew Warhol", and predate Andy Warhol's first New York solo pop art exhibition. His illustrations are simple line drawings in pen and ink.

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But if they were, I don't think they used it. There just wasn't time.

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

Do not speak of repulsive matters at table.

We don't really know much about their condition, ... other than that they had some bear bites and possibly other trauma from the fall. We just don't know the extent of their injuries yet.

I am a journalist in the field of etiquette. I try to find out what the most genteel people regularly do, what traditions they have discarded, what compromises they have made.

We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may never be if we are to live pleasantly with our fellow man.

It's a growing recommendation that we need to provide access for all park users, especially in parks that are less developed and rugged, like Glacier.

Do not smoke without asking permission or sit so near (as in a train) that the smoke might annoy.

The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.

Ceremony is-really a protection, too, in times of emotional involvement, particularly at death. If we have a social formula to guide us and do not have to extemporize, we feel better able to handle life.

They just looked up and there she was.