Quotes About Decorum

We must recall the most important of humanity guidelines: Be polite. Being polite is possibly the greatest daily contribution everyone can make to life on Earth.

Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking.

No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.

Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.

Only once in my life was I on the edge of incivility. I do not like to be unkind.

You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.

GUY TIP #18: Just because you can urinate anywhere you want doesn't mean you should-even if your aim is so good you can spell out "Red Sox Rule" in capital letters with once taking a break.

People can have nicknames. Body parts should not.

Not doing something crude right off is about as close as a guy like me ever gets to class.

In the next room, perhaps twenty people were sitting around, drinking what looked like wine out of wine-glasses. They were the sort of people William and Louisa used to be in the habit of knowing, a crowd of elegant furniture, like the legs of a herd of gazelle taken together, and equally useless, when all things are considered.

In himself man is essentially a beast, only he butters it over like a slice of bread with a little decorum.

Beware of a man with manners.

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Modesty means that you insist that men delight in you at the right time and in the right place and in the right way and we dictate what that means …

Don't be crude, Professor. Profanity is one contest you will not win with me.

I realized that I must be on my best behaviour,' as he later put it, 'punctual, subdued, reserved; in short, display all the qualities with which I am least endowed.

Politeness costs nothing.

I do not like to discuss a game with the other players right after the final whistle.

One should not poke their nose into the private life of other persons.

When you talk about a man like David Bowie, you have to go in there with dignity.

You do not have to do everything disagreeable that you have a right to do.

I was brought up not to brag. I've always disliked people who do.

You can be authentic without being distasteful or disrespectful.

And I think the most important thing is I never am or at least I hope to never be disrespectful.