Quotes About Decorum

Formalized rules of manners were so great because they left no room for basic human haplessness. They allowed us to circumvent our natural boorish tendency to disregard the feelings of others.

You were not supposed to show off in Negroland because you are supposed to be perfectly decorous and well behaved. You were also not supposed to tell any stories that reflected badly on the group because that reflected badly on the race. I use past tense, but it still feels like present tense.

In terms of being a professional, I want to be professional with everyone.

Your bottom may look very nice, but it does not belong on my sterile work surface.

the church has made an It out of the ministry—turning it into a profession demanding decorum, rather than recognizing it as a divine calling with disturbing consequences.

It's rude to discuss your wife with your girlfriend

Always remember how to behave, how to speak to people, how to respect the world around you

dear me, let us be elegant or die.

I'll behave like a Turveydrop see

Many employees said he never lost his temper, raised his voice, uttered a profane or slang word, or acted discourteously.

ramp, it's one of the social graces.

Good manners are a sign of strength.

A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.

Outer space is no place for a person of breeding.

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.

It was the old New York way of taking life "without effusion of blood": the way of people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing was more ill-bred than "scenes," except the behavior of those who gave rise to them.

People don't know how to behave in public anymore.

Women have to be pure and respectful.

Senator, we just don't use that kind of language on the floor of the Senate.

I'm never one to act a fool. Not at home and not in public.

I'm not any good at foul language or anything like that.

I began in an era where four-letter words were not allowed.

It was business, and business may be presumed to cover quite a lot of bad taste.