Quotes About Decorum

Save yourself for the guy with class not the guy with his pants down his ass!

No one has ever been offended by someone with good manners and courteous behaviour.

You can't expose that breast on the street. You can't have a breast exposed in the middle of Manhattan at twelve-fifteen at 116th Street and Broadway.

If it has to be done at all, it must be done with grace.

Learning is an ornament to a good woman, not a distraction.

Modesty is becoming in youth.

It's not polite to invite yourself along.

Oh, I'd never put my elbows on the table.

My whole thing is this - and this is how I am in real life - if you start talking to me crazy, I'm not engaging in that. I'm just not saying anything.

The society ladies were all decked out, if you'll excuse the pun.

He tsked. "No tits, no manners." He shook his head. "You should try to have at least one or the other. A pair of great tits covers a multitude of sins.

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

She knew how the Chief Inspector preferred decorum at the site of a murder, especially in the presence of the corpse. It was rare. Most murder scenes were filled with smart-ass and often gruesome comments, made by men and women frightened by what they saw, and believing sarcasm and rude remarks kept the monsters at bay. They didn't.

When I shut my mouth and walk away doesn't mean you won. It simply means your stupid a.. isn't worth my time!

The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.

Civility is a desire to receive civilities, and to be accounted well-bred.

Gaming is the destruction of all decorum; the prince forgets at it his dignity, and the lady her modesty.

Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.

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

No dignity without distance.

I may forget my dignity, but you may not.

Good-breeding carries along with it a dignity that is respected by the most petulant. Ill-breeding invites and authorizes the familiarity of the most timid.

Jesting and levity accustom a man to lewdness.