Quotes About Decorum

Mother had the social restraint of an ambassador.

Minnet, diÅŸ bilemenin edepli halidir.

am inhibited in expressing myself by the presence of a lady; therefore I cannot adequately discuss your ancestry, personal habits, morals, and destination.

She rearranged her legs again. If she kept doing that, it was possible that I might begin to bugle like a stallion. Which would not be dignified.

Please. Thank you. Learn it. Love it. Or be disappointed.

Good manners are just a way of showing other people that we have respect for them.

Men are respectable only as they respect.

There are few things that so touch us with instinctive revulsion as a breach of decorum.

Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.

Class is an intangible quality which commands, rather than demands, the respect of others.

Don't talk much and save your dignity.

You can disagree with someone on issues, but you should never get personal. Joe Biden has never gotten personal, to my knowledge, with a fellow senator.

Wear your learning like your watch in a private pocket and do not pull it out and strike it merely to show that you have one.

Murder is not a suitable topic of conversation for a young lady.

I'm not saying you shouldn't have made out with Everett. I'm saying you shouldn't have done it in his mother's scrapbooking room. Location, location, location. You might have disorganized her supplies. Some people are very particular about their chipboard getting mixed up with their cardstock.

To sneer at his imperfect attempt was very bad breeding.

Remember that in life you ought to behave as at a banquet. Suppose that something is carried round and is opposite to you. Stretch out your hand and take a portion with decency. Suppose that it passes by you. Do not detain it. Suppose that it is not yet come to you. Do not send your desire forward to it, but wait till it is opposite to you.

The true basis for being respected is to appear refined and modest.

Do not laugh loudly and obnoxiously.

keep your language free of obscenities. Do not dip into the gutter in search of cheap laughs.

Hold a bottle by the neck and a woman by the waist. Never the other way around".

I have no use for people who exhibit manners.

The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.

Presidents should do whatever possible and practical to encourage an environment of cooperation and bipartisanship. And they should maintain a certain level of decorum, diplomacy and decency. But, at the end of the day, presidents get elected to enact change.