Quotes About Decorum

Listen, anybody that knows me knows I'm not disrespectful.

I believe that tears should be very private, and no matter what issue or what situation, we should have a very dignified demeanor.

ask once, ask twice if you must, but for God's sake don't ask three times.

The host with the most horrible manners. If he invites you, send a sick note. If he insists, take to your bed and die.

If ever I hear again of any lapse from a proper standard of infantile decorum, I shall ask for your transference to a Sub-Centre–preferably to Iceland. Good morning.

That is important," said Mma Makutsi from behind her desk. "One does not want a lady who talks too much.

How sad, however, if we're given Our youth as something to betray, And what if youth in turn is driven To cheat on us, each hour, each day, If our most precious aspirations, Our freshest dreams, imaginations In fast succession have decayed, As leaves, in putrid autumn, fade. It is too much to see before one Nothing but dinners in a row, Behind the seemly crowd to go, Regarding life as mere decorum, Having no common views to share, Nor passions that one might declare.

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.

good manners are the moisturizer of life.

Lymond's behaviour, as always, went to the limits of polite usage and then hurtled off into space.

Life is all about manners. Nothing else matters.

The advice in this book centers around two overarching messages: Be thoughtful in your actions and always conduct yourself with class. You will never regret either.

We will all be known for a lifetime of polite, professional behavior or a few lapses in judgement and decorum.

Curiosity is not trivial; it is the respect one life pays to another. It is the largeness of mind and heart that refuses to be bounded by decorum or by desperation. It is the hardest to keep alive in the times it is most needed, the times of hatred, of instability, of attack. Surely these are such times.

Common politeness required that I find out; so did extreme nosiness.

As Sokrates tells it, your story begins the moment Eros enters you. That incursion is the biggest risk of your life. How you handle it is an index of the quality, wisdom, and decorum of the things inside you. As you handle it you come into contact with what is inside you, in a sudden and startling way. You perceive what you are, what you lack, what you could be.

Oh, I love ladies in hats! One rule of restaurants: never take a hat from a lady; wait for her to offer you the hat because she might not want to take it off - she might not have had time to do her hair properly.

You can be assured that I need no one's guidance in anything concerning propriety.

I'm a gentleman, if nothing else. It's taken me years to become one, but finally I have a sense of propriety.

Remember this! No amount of Bacchic reveling can corrupt an honest woman.

Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.

A wonderfully congenial group who live by a unique set of social standards. According to their rules, any sin is acceptable provided it is carried off in good taste.

To Toot One's Own Horn Is Unattractive.

I don't mean to be rude, but