Quotes About Decorum

Nothing good was ever learned from eavesdropping, so mind your business and let others mind theirs.

Whoever one is, and wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude.

An English gentleman is someone who knows exactly when to stop being one.

Good manners open the closed doors; bad manners close the open doors!

How unladylike of you to mention such a thing.

he had acquired almost no formal sort of social discipline—he could not even attempt to imitate decorum.

But one clear difference was that he had acquired almost no formal sort of social discipline—he could not even attempt to imitate decorum. He could not really converse, for instance, not in the sense of sharing information, or of a balanced back-and-forth conversation. He neither particularly listened to what was said to him, nor particularly considered what he said in response (one reason he was so repetitive).

Manners,[...] are severely underappreciated in my opinion". "Oh?" "Where practiced well, they remove the probability that someone in my position will be forced to go through the effort of killing someone in yours. Believe that on occasion that much death can become tedious.

Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.

grand that he had the right to keep his hat on in the presence chamber of the king.

Vulgarity consists as much in disrespecting what deserves respect as in respecting what does not deserve it.

Stillness and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. Vulgar persons can't sit still, or at least must always work their limbs and features.

Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.

We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light (p. 41).

Don't lick the guests, darling. Bad manners.

Patience and propriety. It was the only graceful thing to do.

I'm not particularly religious, but I do have a vestigial sense of propriety. And

comport yourself with more decorum in the future.

I have cats because they have no artificially imposed, culturally prescribed sense of decorum. They live in the moment. If I had an aneurysm in the brain, and dropped dead, I love knowing that as the paramedics carry me out, my cats are going to be swatting at that little toe tag.

Politeness is organized indifference.

One almost expects one of the players to peer into the monitor and politely request viewers to refrain from munching so loudly on cheese and crackers while the golfers are trying to reach the greens.

I am saying this for your own good, not to restrict you, but in order to promote proper decorum and undivided devotion to the Lord.