Quotes About Decorum

No young woman of good breeding should show exclusive partiality to one partner all night.

This country deserves a statesman who can represent the people with proper decorum, respect, and knowledge of what's happening in the world, and I don't believe that Donald Trump represents any of that.

the master of the house don't pinch decent, self-respecting girls when he meets them in a dark corridor. I mention no names and make no charges.

Good manners don't cost nothing.

I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.

I was always taught how to dress for the occasion.

It is a sign of respect when one shows up to an occasion dressed to the nines.

If you don't want to do something,don't impose on others

When respect is shown according to what is proper, one keeps far from shame and disgrace.

As for myself again if I cant be decorum's sworn enemy while savoring its fruits I simply see no place for me at all.

What living and buried speech is vibrating here... what howls restrained by decorum...

He knew how to be impolite without being rude.

I shall not make use of slang or vulgarity upon any occasion or under any circumstances, and shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes. Indeed, upon second thought, I will not even use it then, for it is unchristian, inelegant, and degrading — though to speak truly I do not see how house rent and taxes are going to be discussed worth a cent without it.

When wine enters modesty departs.

You can't just go around touching someone's butt uninvited and expect to walk away without the owner of that butt using your face to break a few tables, right?

Civility and etiquette, gentlemen, are all important.

The matrix of the heart, lift down the eye That shrines the quiet lake and swells a tower… The commodious, tall decorum of that sky Unseals her earth, and lifts love in its shower.

Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation.

Don't walk in my head with your dirty feet.

His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything.

I am not fond of the idea of my shrubberies being always approachable.

Pray, pray be composed, and do not betray what you feel to every body present

I do not cough for my own amusement.

To walk three miles, or four miles, or five miles, or whatever it is, above her ankles in dirt, and alone, quite alone! What could she mean by it? It seems to me to show an abominable sort of conceited independence, a most country-town indifference to decorum.