Quotes About Decorum

Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose!

I don't want to worry about maintaining an air of decorum that's not natural to me.

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

I would never wear anything too revealing. I'm not a fan of dresses where you look nude... I think that looks a bit desperate.

I don't need to air any differences of opinion in public.

I understand that some fans want to express their feelings with signs, and they should do so, as long as they stay within the boundaries of good taste and don't block the view of other fans.

Advertising should always be in good taste without a question.

There's definitely a fine line between tasteful and tasteless, and as a stylist, it's a line you want to ride very carefully.

I got simple tastes. Don't go in for all that flashy business.

I'm not sure what I'd do with you if you were respectable.

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Let them cant about decorum, who have characters to lose!

Being polite to a person is not a sign of respect for them, Pevara Sedai," Emarin said. "It is merely a sign of a good upbringing and a balanced nature.

He never had any sense of decorum Ã¢â'¬Â¦ always kissing his wife in the most unsuitable places!' (Are you sure you kiss me in suitable places, Gilbert? I'm afraid Mrs. Gibson would think the nape of the neck, for instance, most unsuitable.) 'But

must be seen and not heard.

Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation. As no one, who knows what he is about in good company, would venture to talk all, so no author, who understands the just boundaries of decorum and good breeding, would presume to think all. The truest respect which you can pay to the reader's understanding, is to halve this matter amicably, and leave him something to imagine, in his turn, as well as yourself.

And you know, I really have to say this: If your baby isn't even in the room and you can't bear to come equipped with a blanket, kindly put your boob away in its rightful compartment. Don't leave it hanging out for ten to fifteen minutes at a barbecue like you're waiting for someone to hang a Christmas ornament on it.

It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.

Good manners, Madam, are had these days not For your asking, nor mine, nor what-we-used-to-be's. The day is a loud grenade that bursts a smile Of serious weeds in a comic lily plot.

Etiquette is the ceremonial code of polite life, more voluminous and minute in each portion of society according to its rank.

A man who understands decorum and the courtesies is a great treasure; I hope to train and send into society as many such men as I can.

The closest she got to pretence was politeness.

Etiquette may be bad, but embarassment is worse.

One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else.