What Would Mrs. Astor Do? Quotes

“Consideration for the sales staff and fellow shoppers was paramount. “Do not endlessly consume the time of the clerk and keep other customers waiting,”
― Cecelia Tichi, What Would Mrs. Astor Do?: The Essential Guide to the Manners and Mores of the Gilded Age

“Many of our senators and congressmen seem to base their title to public favor upon their uncouth manners and lack of refinement, upon the fact that they have discarded socks or once wore blue-jeans.”
― Cecelia Tichi, What Would Mrs. Astor Do?: The Essential Guide to the Manners and Mores of the Gilded Age

“William Graham Sumner, “That It Is Not Wicked to Be Rich,” in What Social Classes Owe Each Other, 1884”
― Cecelia Tichi, What Would Mrs. Astor Do?: The Essential Guide to the Manners and Mores of the Gilded Age