Quotes About Decorum

When a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers.

There's definitely a thin line between being tasteful and tacky.

Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.

Oftentimes, if you're talking to a seasoned interviewer who asks you a question, they may do a follow-up if they didn't quite get it. It's rare that they'll do a third or fourth or fifth or sixth follow-up, because there's an implicit, agreed-upon decorum that they move on. Kids don't necessarily move on if they don't get it.

La elegancia no consiste en el exceso de adornos, ni en la profusión de alhajas.

Good taste is always an asset.

not to walk about in the house in my outdoor dress

You must be more gentle, dear, more sedate,' Ellen told her daughter. 'You must not interrupt gentlemen when they are speaking, even if you do think you know more about matters than they do. Gentlemen do not like forward girls.

You look like you'd swallowed a ramrod and it isn't becoming-Rhett Butler

You must be more gentle, dear, more sedate," Ellen told her daughter. "You must not interrupt gentlemen when they are speaking, even if you do think you know more about matters than they do. Gentlemen do not like forward girls.

Well, go on then, Abby; run along and let the nice man compromise you.

his hand spread itself out flat on the table. I paused and took another good look at him. There was something otherworldly about him, the way that he sat, the way he used this one hand to gesture. It was the decorum primitive people often have that makes them seem repositors of immense wisdom, when in fact all they possess is immense conviction.

Never, ever, under any circumstances apply lipstick while at the table.

Keep your lips and other body parts to yourself or you'll be headless. (Apollymi)

She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability.

Never laughing too loudly in a restaurant no matter how good the joke.

I don't think you have the right to shout about other people's private life.

When all else failed, her grandmother Mary would have said, good manners never deserted one.

But I remembered that it wouldn't be polite.

If you feel the need to be stupid, do so elsewhere.

Polite conversation is rarely either.

Gentlemen don't read each other's mail.

My philosophy is, if I couldn't say it in front of my grandmother, I probably shouldn't say it.

I do say no to things that I think are completely gratuitous.