Quotes About Decorum

Mrs Poste, who had wished people to live beautiful lives and yet be ladies and gentlemen.

There is an innate decorum in man, and it is not fair to thrust Truth upon people when they don't expect it. Only the very generous are ready for Truth impromptu.

There are questions so indiscreet, that they deserve neither truth nor falsehood in reply.

Not stepping over the bounds of modesty.

It has sometimes been said that prudery reached such a height in the nineteenth century that people took to dressing their piano legs in little skirts lest they rouse anyone to untimely passion. Thomas

Arabella, like a sweet, compliant woman and good wife, put all thoughts of her new curtains aside for the moment and assured both gentlemen that in such a cause it was no trouble to her to wait.

He felt the ground frail as a bird's skull under his feet, a mere shell of sanity and decorum between him and the dark entrails of the earth where the sluggish muds and scalding waters had their source.

His virtual home showed none of the ostentation of others in the Brotherhood, no Gothic-fortress-perched-on-impossible-cliffs or Caligulean excesses of decor (usually accompanied by an equally Caligulean want of decorum.)

It's rude to run off a guest. It's rude to wear out your welcome.

The custom of going to a party only when we have been invited is a necessary, attractive, decent way for a party to evolve.

It is not respectful to dance with people you don't know when invited to someone else's home.

Badou Jack ain't a trash-talker. He's very respectful.

I'm not joining in personal attacks... I don't do personal attacks.

I've never revved my car at a light for an attractive woman or an auto-rival, not even as a joke.

Don't make jokes about food.

She took my other sense of taste. The important one. And with it went my sense of humor, my sense of decorum, my sense of purpose, and my sense of self. The last one stung the most, since it appears my sense of self is tied directly to my wit. I mean, it's in the name

If you can't say it to me in front of my kids, don't say it.

This impression came out most for Maggie when, in their easier intervals, they had only themselves to regard, and when her companion's inveteracy of never passing first, of not sitting till she was seated, of not interrupting till she appeared to give leave, of not forgetting too familiarly that in addition to being important she was also sensitive, had the effect of throwing over their intercourse a kind of silver tissue of decorum. It

Nora seemed by instinct to have perceived the fitness of her not speaking of her own affairs, and indeed displayed in the matter a precocious good taste.

and tell him to paint me a sign, with-no suicides permitted here, and no smoking in the parlor; might as well kill both birds at once.

Young man, if God had wanted you to see me that way, he would have put your eyes in your bellybutton.

It's not my style to talk trash to my opponents.

I never liked to say any trash talk about anyone, and I never go low on that level.

We weren't interested in fashion, but we were interested in form. Goodness me, Mother used to worry about whether or not it was good form to pick up an olive with a fork. That's what's missing nowadays, if you ask me.