Quotes About Decorum

As for the decorum at the time of a campaign, one must be mindful that he is a samurai. A person who loves beautification where it is unnecessary is fit for punishment.

Though I normally approve of plain speaking, as you know, I would suggest that as part of your good behavior, you refer to the king as 'his grace' or even simply 'the king' instead of 'that creature,' by the way.

Besides, as Ma had told her innumerable times, a lady should never indicate in mixed company that she had limbs beneath her skirt.

At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds.

Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.

politeness without warmth

If you're successful, you must express a modest appearance.

For me, you have to have some kind of modesty.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

But they had their Christmas, beginning thus with parental advice and continuing through all the acts of contrition, love, and decorum. They put on, over their savage lives, the raiment of society, going diligently through the forms and conventions, and thinking, Now, we are like all other families; but they were timid and shy and stuff, like rustics dressed in evening clothes.

The coat went over his shoulder. It was too hot here for that, and hotter still where he was going. He'd have to wear a coat there. It was expected, one of those curious rules of formal behavior that demanded the maximum discomfort to attain the proper degree of decorum.

If my face is uncovered, a man—even someone I do not know—may fall into sin. Consequently, the scarves are necessary, essential. For life, I am wrapped as if in death. Why not have the man cover his eyes instead?

At home we're the hosts, and I never liked the idea of being embarrased in front of our friends.

A lady's armor is courtesy

Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly.

Civilization depends on, and civility often requires, the willingness to say, "What you are doing is none of my business" and "What I am doing is none of your business.

A gentleman does things no gentleman should do in a way only a gentleman can.

It does not matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you do not do it in the street and frighten the horses.

Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate, and may be offensive .

A true gentlemen is one who is never unintentionally rude.

Sex, unlike justice, should not be seen to be done.

I count him lost, who is lost to shame.

Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

Of all modern notions, the worst is this: that domesticity is dull. Inside the home, they say, is dead decorum and routine; outside is adventure and variety. But the truth is that the home is the only place of liberty, the only spot on earth where a man can alter arrangements suddenly, make an experiment or indulge in a whim. The home is not the one tame place in a world of adventure; it is the one wild place in a world of rules and set tasks.