Quotes About Decorum

No 13-year-old or over should ever be seen in trousers that finish above the ankle. It doesn't matter how good your legs are, or if you're on a beach in Bermuda where they invented the things.

In the society of ladies, want of sense is not so unpardonable as want of manners.

There are names I do not want mentioned in my home.

You could be as vulgar as you want, as long as three tiny spots were covered.

Sergeant, Kindly has probably not lain with a woman since the night of his coming of age, and that time was probably with a whore his father or uncle bought for the occasion. Women can tell these things. The man's repressed, in all the worst ways.' 'Oh, and what are the good ways of being repressed?' 'For a man? Well, decorum for one, as in not taking advantage of your rank. Listen closely now, if you dare. All real acts of chivalry are forms of repressed behavior.

Kruppe hastens with proper welcome to this grand company to already beloved Scillara of the Knowing Eyes and other assorted accoutrements of charm Kruppe would dearly wish to knowingly eye, if not for the dastardly demands of decorum. Welcome, cries Kruppe, even as he slumps back - oof! - exhausted by his enthusiasm and dimpled with desire.

Remember that always dressing in understated good taste is the same as playing dead.

Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill-bred it is.

Never trust a man who sits, uninvited, at the head of the table in another man's home." 

Men sometimes have to leave their ladies alone, and ladies are not responsible for the bad manners of fools.

I don't think any woman minds knowing she looks good, as long as the admiration isn't expressed in an offensive way and doesn't come from a disgusting source.

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

Courtesy is a lady's armor.

Seldom does a member of either party have to be called down for inappropriate behavior on the House floor.

I've never messed around with any fans. I've never yelled at anybody.

I would not have had that happen to you. Discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me.

Discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me.

Never paint your wife or your mother.

I so much despise a man who blows his own horn, that I go to the other extreme.

For dronkenesse is verray sepultureOf mannes wit and his discrecioun.

Orro spun around. "I do not like this Assembly. It jerks the small human to and fro." He stabbed the air with his giant fork for emphasis. "Can they not see that she is exhausted? Do they not know what she has been through? Come to the meeting, do not come to the meeting, is there no decorum?

y con buenos modales para ir a restaurantes y al cine.

Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.

Etiquette-a fancy word for simple kindness.