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Letitia Baldrige Quotes

Before the Kennedys were elected, there had been older Presidents. Then here was this devastatingly attractive young couple with two beautiful children. They were so intelligent, graceful, gracious and funny. They enjoyed life so much. That’s what caught America’s eye.

– Letitia Baldrige

I’m all for Hillary Clinton. I want her to avoid the barbs of women who hate women who work. But I’m known as a Republican in Washington. I’m probably the last person she’d call.

– Letitia Baldrige

CEOs are called by their first names by young whippersnappers. That makes everybody uncomfortable. We need order and structure back in the workplace.

– Letitia Baldrige

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.

– Letitia Baldrige

If you’re making a social call, don’t call past 8 P.M. The evening is a time when people need a respite from their work – a time to unwind, uninterrupted.

– Letitia Baldrige

A real thank you does not come by e-mail. They come in the mail in an envelope. And what comes out of an envelope is a beautiful thing to touch and to handle and to pass around for everyone to read.

– Letitia Baldrige

The polished executive is ultimately the happy executive who can walk gracefully through life.

– Letitia Baldrige

I don’t care what your politics are, I would wager that if you asked any American woman which administration would she have most liked to work for as social secretary, she would pick Jacqueline Kennedy’s White House as the place to be.

– Letitia Baldrige

What the bride should do is call guests who have young children and say: ‘I’d love to have the kids at the wedding, but we won’t have room. Would you get a baby sitter, and when we get back from our honeymoon, we’ll have you guys over?’

– Letitia Baldrige

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.

– Letitia Baldrige

Jeans should never be worn to someone’s home if you are having dinner there.

– Letitia Baldrige

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.

– Letitia Baldrige

Go to any bookstore, and you’ll see thousands of books on etiquette, which suggests there’s a lot of self-help going on. There is hope.

– Letitia Baldrige

I’ve had a charmed life.

– Letitia Baldrige

People are less grateful than they used to be.

– Letitia Baldrige

Good manners are cost effective. They not only increase the quality of life in the workplace, they contribute to employee morale, embellish the company image, and play a major role in generating profit.

– Letitia Baldrige

I’m for anything that teaches consideration and kindness. If one can teach one’s son to dance with the ugliest little girl in the room, that’s the best lesson they can ever learn.

– Letitia Baldrige

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

– Letitia Baldrige

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

– Letitia Baldrige

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.

– Letitia Baldrige

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

– Letitia Baldrige

It behooves everyone to move forward, think forward.

– Letitia Baldrige

We’re a nation of latchkey children. Manners start at home, and no one is at home teaching manners so that children have respect for others.

– Letitia Baldrige

There are major CEOs who do not know how to hold a knife and fork properly, but I don’t worry about that as much as the lack of kindness.

– Letitia Baldrige

We ought to be vigilantes for kindness and consideration.

– Letitia Baldrige

I have grandchildren who are going to need every cent I make.

– Letitia Baldrige

If golfers know they look good, they will play better. I think that is valid for men and women.

– Letitia Baldrige

I believe in teaching manners without causing fisticuffs.

– Letitia Baldrige

You’d be surprised how much easier it is to conduct business over tea than over lunch or dinner in a bustling restaurant.

– Letitia Baldrige

For every rude executive who makes it to the top, there are nine successful executives with good manners.

– Letitia Baldrige

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