Quotes About Decorum

Great stress is placed on manners. "Never point," one San Francisco mother teaches her children, "except at French pastry." Do's and don'ts are rampantly important. "We'd never wear diamonds before lunch," says one woman. "Anyone who'd wear a mink stole in the daytime is automatically out," says another.

I would never say anything derogatory about another actor even in my sleep.

But I've never been the type to be sloppy drunk in public.

Det er en kjedelig uvane som særlig går ut over damene, å måtte låne ut leppene til hvem som helst som har tre tjenere på slep, uansett hvor frastøtende han er.

Respect? Of course, always, to all, because everything seems funnier when you're trying to show respect.

we got up and walked down Piccadilly. Jonathan was holding me by the arm, the way he used to in the old days before I went to school. I felt it very improper, for you can't go on for some years teaching etiquette and decorum to other girls without the pedantry of it biting into yourself a bit; but it was Jonathan, and he was my husband, and we didn't know anybody who saw us - and we didn't care if they did - so on we walked.

There has to be some decorum left in politics and in American journalism as well. Our husbands are the candidates.

I never speak ill of dead people or live judges.

If you see a man kiss me, I better be in my casket.

It's not my habit to kiss and tell. I've never done it.

I don't kiss and tell.

A knighthood would be a bit too much. An OBE or an MBE or whatever they are called, one of those would be more elegant.

I don't ever knock anybody; that's bad manners.

If decorum allowed, she would take tea at the hotel. Once inside, she might run into a rich northern gentleman who had ridden in this very coach. If only she could touch something colored blue for luck before entering the building! "Touch blue and your wish will come true." That, along with the rabbit's foot she always carried in her pocket, would almost ensure such a meeting.

You can kill but don't cuss. Break any rule necessary to save the world but don't watch porn or even think about having sex.

Among the Huguenots he learned to be gentle and courteous; to bear himself among his elders respectfully, but without fear or shyness; to consider that, while all things were of minor consequence in comparison to the right to worship God in freedom and purity, yet that a man should be fearless of death, ready to defend his rights, but with moderation and without pushing them to the injury of others; that he should be grave and decorous of speech, and yet of a gay and cheerful spirit.

No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.

A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's really attractive.

No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy.

Her breasts were showing and Mr. Player, who was a very strong Quaker, didn't think that was quite proper.

It is shaming sometimes how the body will not, or cannot, lie about emotions. Who, for decorum's sake, has ever slowed his heart, or muted a blush?

It's shaming sometimes, how the body will not, or cannot, lie about emotions. Who, for decorum's sake, has ever slowed his heart, or muted a blush?

What used to be called 'good manners' is now regarded as mere affectation. Open a door for a young woman, and she's likely to call security.

Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.