Quotes About Decorum

The best way to save face is keep the bottom half shut.

give details, professional courtesy

Manners is treating people with respect.

Even at moments like this, there is a limit to how weird I am prepared to appear.

The dead are notoriously unreliable when it comes to standards of behavior," I said. "Particularly murder victims. They have no sense of decorum at all.

I've sat through boring speeches; didn't get up and leave.

You don't spit on people, especially people's corners.

Insulting players and coaches and spitting on us is simply wrong. You cannot go out and walk around town and just start insulting people or spit at them either.

He has a kind of exaggerated politeness that is kind of like a military man.

No one would be fooled, but propriety would be maintained.

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

He who slings mud generally loses ground.

careful not to ogle her wares, as dames often do not care for that, even when it is evident that they have spent no little time and effort preparing their wares for ogling.

Don't defoul the air. It ill becomes you. - Oromis

Chilo advised, not to speak evil of the dead.

In dress, seek the middle between foppery and shabbiness.

PLEASE DO NOT ENTER WITHOUT KNOCKING. PLEASE DO NOT KNOCK.

It is not wise to notice another man's woman.

It is unseemly to undress on stage. I won't do that.

Men mixing with women is like fire mixing with wood.

T stands for being nice. T stands for manners. T stands for being polite.

I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.

The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add.

Don't jump on a man unless he is down.