Quotes About Decorum

I don't do any vulgar movements.

L'Incorruttibile, severo nel suo portamento, elegante nel suo vestire, non prese mai parte a una dimostrazione né si confuse mai con i cittadini comuni adottandone lo stile e i simboli.

One of the most important rules of the science of manners is an almost absolute silence in regard to yourself.

I try to handle myself with class.

I try to handle myself with dignity.

When did you last have fun being dignified?

You mustn't frown, Venetia, never in my presence, at all events!

Tipping your hat to a lady is good form. If you're at a dinner table, you'd most certainly take your hat off - cowboy hat, baseball hat, or otherwise.

I don't ever cross the line. I step right up to it. I put my toes on the line, but I don't ever cross that line. There are some barriers you just don't cross - you don't talk about religion; you don't talk about race. Those are lines I will never cross.

I raised my kids kind of old-fashioned - if you don't have something nice to say, then don't say it at all. I teach love, acceptance, and tolerance... I sometimes think that this generation is lacking in decency.

My mother won't tolerate any four-letter words.

She was the sort of woman men wanted to help. Not the sort they wanted to help themselves to…

For example, if you're a guest it is not polite to ask to use the host's toilet, apparently: they might feel embarrassed because it isn't presentable for guests. And as a host, don't, whatever you do, pass the cheese platter more than once. It's considered ill-mannered, I read, after I'd done precisely that at least five hundred times.

In my entire time in Washington, I treated everyone with respect, with civility.

Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time in you?

Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

Do not bring your dog. (advice for attending a funeral)

A body can't be too partic'lar how they talk 'bout these-yer dead people, Tom.

The refusal of laughter to absent itself, in the Soviet case, has already been noted (and will be returned to). It seems that the Twenty Million will never command the sepulchral decorum of the Holocaust. This is not, or not only, a symptom of the general 'asymmetry of indulgence' (the phrase is Ferdinand Mount's). It would not be so unless something in the nature of Bolshevism permitted it to be so.

You must admit that the whole conduct of the proceedings was intolerable, and that my righteous protest was more than justified. It is possible that when I threw the chairman's table at the President of the Psychic College I passed the bounds of decorum, but the provocation had been excessive.

more decorous manner

If you'd blush saying something in person, don't write it.

Good manners reflect something from inside-an innate sense of consideration for others and respect for self.

A gentleman does not boast about his junk.