[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.
Source: In Newsweek, 11 Aug 1958.
-- Amy Vanderbilt, (Jul 22 1908-1974), US etiquette authority; She was the author of Amy Vanderbilt's Complete Book of Etiquette, 1952, a book that has been called a guide to gracious living.