Quotes About Decorum

I do not really care what people do as long as they do not do it in the street and frighten the horses.

If we tolerate vulgarity, our future will sway and fall under a burden of ignorance.

I don't do alcohol. Or other people's boyfriends. And don't you forget it.

If you have nothing to say for yourself then kindly keep your mouth shut!

Conventions vs. spontaneity. This is a dialectical choice, it depends on the assessment you make of your own times. If you judge that your own time is ridden with empty insincere formalities, you plump for spontaneity, for indecorous behavior even...Much of morality is the task of compensating for one's age. One assumes unfashionable virtues, in an indecorous time. In a time hollowed out by decorum, one must school oneself in spontaneity.

In a time hollowed out by decorum, one must school oneself in spontaneity.

Any references to pregnancy or childbirth are coarse, and should be carefully side-stepped by the truly well-bred, as should intrusive comments on love-affairs.

I figured he was adhering to the adage that if you don't have anything nice to say, don't make fun of the person paying the mortgage.

It is a general rule to err on the side of formality rather than of intimacy.

you must take inedibles out the way you put them in.

Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.

Christians must act according to their state in life, respecting and glorifying God in all circumstances. Though what may constitute indecent, immodest, or improper decorum at one time or place may not necessarily be so at another.

A gentleman would've risen when a lady entered the room.' I paused by the seat but did not sit down. 'Well, when one comes in I'll make sure I stir myself.' Ouch! I walked into that one. A point to him.

Making personal attacks or speaking with malicious intention is something that I have always refrained from.

Not quite so fast, sir, if you please,' she said

No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.

Tamaki: A girl should only show skin once she's married, not before!!!

There is a worldwide longing for civility.

Call me old-fashioned, but I did read in Glamour that one's shorts should always be longer than one's vagina.

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.

Are you crazy? The last thing you want to do is make a scene." "Well, I'm gonna make a movie if you don't show me some respect.

Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.

Silence gives the proper grace to women.