Letitia Baldrige Quotes

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.

~ Letitia Baldrige

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

~ Letitia Baldrige

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

~ Letitia Baldrige

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

Nothing gets on other people's nerves at the office more than a whistler. And the sad part is, these whistlers don't know they're doing it. Someone should, tactfully, tell the whistler how much it disrupts the office environment.

~ Letitia Baldrige

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

~ Letitia Baldrige

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.

~ Letitia Baldrige

Business colleagues who have not seen each other for a long time but who have a good relationship can always shake hands warmly and grab each other's right upper arm or shoulder with their free left hand. Men and women executives should not kiss each other in public.

~ 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