Letitia Baldrige Quotes

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Letitia Baldrige

Profession : Writer

Birth : February 9, 1926

Make people have a smile when they finish your e-mail.

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At home, we're listening to TV or playing with our computers, so our entertaining is rusting. We don't know how to be good hosts and guests in business situations.

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Tea time is a chance to slow down, pull back and appreciate our surroundings.

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Chivalry isn't dead. It's just no longer gender-based.

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An excellent wine, someone's best attempt at cooking, and the candles and flowers on the table can turn the simplest dinner into an unforgettably romantic event.

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Everybody forgets names and faces, and it's just inconsiderate to expect someone who isn't your boss or your sister-in-law to know exactly who you are.

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There is so much bad manners and oafishness in large corporations.

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Politeness decrees that you must listen to be kind; intelligence decrees that you must listen to learn.

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I never made any money, but I had the best jobs in the world.

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We ought to be vigilantes for kindness and consideration.

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That's how a nation's manners are going to be taught - from watching others' behavior and learning from the effects of that behavior.

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It's very important with these young people who are graduating and getting married to write thank-you notes.

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We are not passing values on to our children. We are not sitting down at the dinner table talking about the tiny things that add up to caring human beings.

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Kids today and for the last 20 years have held the fork and knife in unbelievable ways. They hold the fork with a fist and the knife like a saw and they shovel it in. It doesn't matter to them which way they hold their knife and fork. They eat every which way. I'm amazed they get food into their mouths at all.

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I saw an e-mail from one guy who's about 23 to one of peers. His parting sign-off was 'Don't let the bedbugs bite.' Now that's really poetic.

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If you take five taxis a day, one driver will be nasty, and the other four are perfectly nice. You remember the nasty one. But you should remember the four who were nice.

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A man or woman can be known and respected for good taste, regardless of job or income level, if they make good choices in clothes, have good table manners, are kind and organize their home to look warm, welcoming, clean, and appropriate to their station in life.

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Look at all those unattractive people talking about depraved things all day long on TV talk shows. People can talk about themselves, yet the art of conversation, which has to do with sharing, is disappearing. I feel as though I am chasing a runaway locomotive.

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A bride is a bride the first time around. The white dress and the white veil are symbolic. So many people are breaking the rules that people don't know what the rules are.

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You don't want to work so hard that you can't enjoy your guests.

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