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Quotes About Decorum

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~ Ford Madox Ford
The very fact that she never made an impudent answer seemed to Miss Minchin a kind of impudence in itself.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
Don't ever humiliate a man. If you're gonna have to dress him out, you take him aside and do it that way. That's the one thing I don't like about Hollywood: They go in for public humiliation. You shouldn't do that to a man.
~ Rip Torn
Some people regard the astonishing collapse of manners and civility in our society as a superficial event. They are wrong. The fate of decorum expresses the fate of a culture's dignity, its attitude toward its animating values.)
~ Roger Kimball
Um homem verdadeiramente grave não pode gastar menos de dois minutos em tirar o lenço e assoar-se.
~ Machado de Assis
respectability with overtones of
~ Maeve Binchy
Sopan santun banyak manfaatnya, tetapi tidak menuntut bayaran.
~ Samuel Smiles
There was no way I was gonna walk around this place with my dork hanging out!
~ John Candy
never sit in the first row at the ballet.
~ John D Macdonald
I beg your pardon," said Abbot. "You are quite right, of course. I am not myself fond of bad taste, though I am always displaying it. Go on.
~ John Dickson Carr
Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste.
~ John Donne
I am sensible that my keenness of temper, and a vanity to be distinguished for the day, make me too often splash in life.... I amresolved to restrain myself and attend more to decorum.
~ James Boswell
Expelling out a person accordingly, from the assembly, circle, or gathering, who spoils the surrounding of that neither falls under the discrimination nor a violation of the freedom of expression. Veritably, it executes and preserves the context-beauty of the disciplinary principles.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
This decorum and etiquette, the whole self-stylization of the upper class, demand among other things that one does not allow oneself to be portrayed as one really is, but according to how one must appear to conform with certain hallowed conventions, remote from reality and the present time. Etiquette is the highest law not merely for the ordinary mortal, but also for the king, and in the imagination of this society even the gods accept the forms of courtly ceremonial.
~ Arnold Hauser
It is nasty when you're playing in someone else's house to point out that they don't have enough balls.
~ Arthur Adamov
The Queen is a true professional and calmly pinned my MBE on.
~ Jimmy White
I'm very much a gentleman in what I do.
~ Little Richard
As a matter of fact , personally I am ok with exposing, as long as it is done in good taste.
~ Priyamani
As boas maneiras são como o zero a aritmética: por si sós, elas pouco ou nada representam, mas são capazes de acrescentar muito ao valor das outras coisas.
~ Freya Stark
Warning to the despised. – If you have unmistakably sunk in the estimation of men you should hold on like grim death to decorum in society with others: otherwise you will betray to them that you have sunk in your own estimation too. When a man is cynical in society it is a sign that he treats himself like a dog when he is alone.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Honest things, like honest men, do not carry their reasons in their hands like that. It is indecent to show all five fingers. What must first be proved is worth little.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
If you can't say anything nice about somebody, step away from the voice enhancement equipment.
~ Gail Collins
Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.
~ Colley Cibber
There are certain things I would never write about - anything that's too distasteful. I think that you can withhold information.
~ Kate Nash