Quotes About Decorum

Among well bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his turn; and an easy stream of conversation maintained without vehemence, without interruption, without eagerness for victory, and without any airs of superiority.

Drinking can not be sacramentalised except in religions which set no store on decorum. The worship of Dionysos or the Celtic god of beer was a loud and disorderly affair.

Thank God she wasn't still hanging out in her underpants.

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste.

You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.

Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.

I possess every good quality, but the one that distinguishes me above all is modesty.

Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.

Everything is permissible as long as it's done in good taste.

Good manners are very important, particularly in the morning.

Courtesy is the politic witchery of great personages.

Manners and politeness will never become old-fashioned.

Any girl that's in a professional setting has to have a certain amount of decorum, but there's always a different story going on, when she goes home.

What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming.

Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing.

To be dignified and distinguished give honor and dignity to others.

Politeness is the flower of humanity.

Attracting musicians is rather like inviting flies over to tea: they are tolerable for half an hour, but when they begin to touch the food, you either wish they would go home or die.

I watched you undress. Shame on you!

The trouble with dead people today is they have no sense of decorum

Politeness goes far, yet costs nothing.

Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

An excess of courtesy is discourtesy.