Quotes About Decorum

No lace. No lace, Mrs. Bennett, I beg you!

What did she say? - Just what she ought, of course. A lady always does.

had you behaved in a more gentleman like manner!

I hope I never ridicule what is wise or good.

Elinor, cried Marianne, is this fair? is this just? are my ideas so scanty? But I see what you mean. I have been too much at my ease, too happy, too frank. I have erred against every common-place notion of decorum; I have been open and sincere where I ought to have been reserved, spiritless, dull, and deceitful:- had I talked only of the weather and the roads, and had I spoken only once in ten minutes, this reproach would have been spared.

Sus modales eran refinados y su comportamiento ni excesivamente tímido ni afectadamente franco, con lo cual resultaba alegre, bonita y atractiva, sin llamar la atención de cuantos hombres la miraban y (mi parte favorita) sin hacer vehementes demostraciones de contrariedad o de placer cada vez que se presentaba la ocasión de manifestar cualquiera de estos sentimientos. Porque qué lindo es cuando una mujer no es sobreactuada.

The loo-table, however, did not appear.

Now, Kitty, you may cough as much as you choose

These are the kind of little things which please her ladyship, and it is a sort of attention which I conceive myself peculiarly bound to pay.

do not cough for my own amusement

Dorothea sniffed and looked around the room, her distaste clear. "Try to be polite, Mother," Marjorie said. "I am always polite." "Then try to be nice.

Riley reminded herself that she was a professional, and stabbing Emerson with her nail file wouldn't be appropriate.

My mother was in the kitchen ironing. Physically she's a younger version of my Grandma Mazur, and physically I'm a younger version of my mother. Mentally and emotionally my mother is on her own. Lunacy seems to have skipped a generation and my mother is left to bear the burden of maintaining standards of decorum for the family. My grandmother and I are the loose cannons.

I believe in choosing your words very carefully. It's funny: I'll get comments like, 'Oh I love you. You don't care; you have no filter.' On the contrary, I absolutely have a filter, because I understand decorum, and my objective is not to upset people.

No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.

You don't need a rope to pinch a stranger's butt.

When a man crosses his legs and the trouser leg rides up to show the hairy shins, it offends my eyes.

When members of this House use inflammatory language, use offensive language, it does not help the process. It is beneath the dignity of this body and this country.

I have been known for my courtesy on and off the bench.

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business.

Manners before morals!

She doesn't care much for eloquence in others.  She thinks it a little loud. [

What do ties matter, Jeeves, at a time like this?' There is no time, sir, at which ties do not matter

We do not tell old friends beneath our roof-tree that they are an offence to the eyesight.