Quotes About Decorum

Character is something you do when no one else is watching.

You can wear whatever you want, just so long as you have on trousers, shoes, and a shirt.

Stephen reflected for some little while on the exact degree of calculated incivility allowed in a well-bred man.

There is no dignity to life except with order

I have heard that stiff people lose something of their awkwardness under high ceilings, and in spacious halls. I think, sculptureand painting have an effect to teach us manners, and abolish hurry.

I will conduct myself with all due decorum. Mr. Crepsley said pompously, then added beneath his breath, but I will miss her. With all my heart and soul, I miss her.

The sauce to meat is ceremony; Meeting were bare without it.

Ay, but you must confine yourself within the modest limits of order.

Did I behave myself tonight, Ross?' she asked. 'Did I behave as Mrs Poldark should behave?' 'You misbehaved monstrously,' he said, 'and were a triumph.

Yes, sir,' said Jeeves in a low, cold voice, as if he had been bitten in the leg by a personal friend.

Increasingly, Christian life seems to be nothing more than a particular way of behaving, a code of good conduct. Christianity is increasingly alienated, becoming a social attribute adapted to meet the least worthy of human demands - conformity, sterile conservatism, pusillanimity and timidity; it is adapted to the trivial moralizing which seeks to adorn cowardice and individual security with the funerary decoration of social decorum.

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

When a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers.

Please restrain your commentary on the furniture.

You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.

Marcus…you are a healthy man of thirty-five—and you didn't take one tiny peep at Miss Bowman standing there in her drawers?" "I don't peep, Livia. I either take a good look at something, or I don't. Peeping is for children or deviants.

Say as little as possible," Lady Berwick told the girls severely. "Remember that silence is golden." Glancing at Pandora, she added, in your case, it's platinum.

the idea of sex is no idea at all. Imagine doing those things—How can you? Where's your sense of dignity?

If I had a family crest, it would read Please Don't Make Me Be an Asshole.

I try to behave myself, and I succeed.

A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't.

To keep beauty in its place is to make all things beautiful.

Humility is the best dress you can wear

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.