Quotes About Decorum

You have to mind your Ps and Qs a little bit.

You mustn't upstage the bride.

Men are respectable only as they respect.

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

I think that our popular theology has gained in decorum, and not in principle, over the superstitions it has displaced.

Miss Manners corrects only upon request. Then she does it from a distance, with no names attached, and no personal relationship, however distant, between the corrector and the correctee. She does not search out errors like a policeman leaping out of a speed trap. When Miss Manners observes people behaving rudely, she behaves politely to them, and then goes home and snickers about them afterward.

It's not polite to watch someone's first kiss.

Etiquette, or dog in the original Coptic, means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

Manners won't cost you a thing," Asa said. "But they may gain you plenty.

I never let my politics supersede my manners.

He must not laugh at his own wheeze. A snuff box has no right to sneeze.

A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of the home.

To boast loudly in public of one's own country seemed to him indecent – like enlarging on the physical perfections of one's own wife in a smoking room.

Never complain, never explain.

Kibbencook was not a hotbed of radicalism, and even antiwar marches were organized with a certain decorum. It was a thoroughly suburban protest.

Of the dead'… hmmm… 'speak well or say nothing.

Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to night, smokes like a chimney, and uses language which would make a billingsgate fishwoman blush!

You must always be polite to people whose position forbids them to be rude to you.

True to the precepts handed down to her by her mother and grandmother—to wit: that a true lady can neither be shocked nor surprised—Miss Marple merely raised her eyebrows and shook her head,

My Great-aunt Jane always used to say that a true lady was neither shocked nor surprised at anything that might happen," I murmured dreamily. "I endeavour to live up to her precepts.

And a lot of fandangle it usually is," said Mrs. Burch. "Forms to fill in, and a lot of impertinent questions as shouldn't be asked of any decent body.

Only to those who don't know you–who are taken in by your delusive appearance of meekness and decorum.' 'I like your long words.' 'All out of crossword puzzles.' 'So educative.

I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.

I'm a logical woman and won't resort to washing dirty linen in public.