Top 78 Decorum's Quotes
#1. It's shaming sometimes, how the body will not, or cannot, lie about emotions. Who, for decorum's sake, has ever slowed his heart, or muted a blush?
Ian McEwan
#2. 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.
Aldous Huxley
#3. Observe decorum, and it will open a path to morality.
Mason Cooley
#4. I rapped my knuckles on Malina's door. The percussive sound seemed to offend the hallway's sense of decorum, and the quiet chastised me as it dropped into my ears like cotton balls.
Kevin Hearne
#5. To a high degree we are, through art and science, cultured. We are civilized - perhaps too much for our own good - in all sorts of social grace and decorum. But to consider ourselves as
having reached morality - for that, much is lacking.
Immanuel Kant
#6. At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds.
Salvatore Quasimodo
#7. Oh get over it Cecilia! You are no longer human. Such decorum doesn't exist amongst our kind
Eve Masters
#8. He remembered lesson #76.5 from Man Decorum 101: Never tell a smart, pissed-off female what to do. Ask her. Nicely. Preferably with roses in hand.
Stephanie Rowe
#9. Decorum
that bug-bear which deters so many from bliss until the opportunity for bliss has forever gone by.
Edgar Allan Poe
#10. In a desperate bid to reestablish civilized talk and decorum, Miss Hisselpenny said, quite loudly, I see they are bringing in the fish course. What a pleasant surprise. I do so love fish. Don't you Mr., uh, Dubh. It is so very, um, salty.
Gail Carriger
#11. During our first month in the flat, however, Mr Puri was on his best behaviour. Apart from twice proposing marriage to my wife, he behaved with perfect decorum.
William Dalrymple
#12. It is difficult to attack me directly on religion because I never speak of it. Formally I am a strict observer of decorum and in public affairs it is my principle to uphold religion.
Etienne Francois, Duc De Choiseul
#13. It was not very unusual at Washington for a lady to take the arm of a gentleman, who was neither her husband, her father, norher brother. This remarkable relaxation of American decorum has been probably introduced by the foreign legations.
Frances Trollope
#14. The trouble with dead people today is they have no sense of decorum
Vicky Loebel
#15. You have to adhere to a certain morality, a certain level of decorum, or else you'll be punished and labeled.
Margaret Cho
#16. I'm a CEO of a public company. You have to show decorum.
Ivan Glasenberg
#17. Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#18. Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#19. When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
Abbie Hoffman
#20. Writing an upbeat aphorism is a temptation, but decorum forbids.
Mason Cooley
#21. I took the stairs two at a time. There's a time for decorum and a time to run like a crazed vorpal's after you, except a crazed vorpal's an oxymoron. This was the time to run.
L.E. Modesitt Jr.
#23. For nothing is more suitable to persons of gravity and decorum than to endure minor inconvenience with constancy
C.S. Lewis
#24. Starfleet, where keeping decorum ranked just beneath exploration as its reason for existing.
John Jackson Miller
#25. admitted it to be no more than due decorum." - Emma
Jane Austen
#26. The dead are notoriously unreliable when it comes to standards of behavior," I said. "Particularly murder victims. They have no sense of decorum at all.
Tasha Alexander
#27. John had been a footman nearly all of his adult life. He knew decorum and appropriate behavior for his situation. But when he glanced from one twin to another, he nearly ruined his reputation and self-respect forever with...a smile.
Sarah Brazytis
#28. 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 honour or observation.
Walter Scott
#29. If the prudence of reserve and decorum dictates silence in some circumstances, in others prudence of a higher order may justify us in speaking our thoughts.
Edmund Burke
#30. I do think of my reader, or listener, really, more often, if I give a lecture, for example, and I know that I'm talking to these people; I enjoy sort of preening them a bit. But it's a matter of decorum, basically.
William H Gass
#31. Jesus loved, praised, and rewarded one thing: desperation for God that superseded decorum.
Mark Batterson
#32. 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.
Stana Katic
#33. There are few things that so touch us with instinctive revulsion as a breach of decorum.
Thorstein Veblen
#34. Unsuccessful candidates for the Presidency should be quietly hanged as a matter of public sanitation and decorum.
H.L. Mencken
#35. In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.
Bobby Jones
#36. I will conduct myself with all due decorum." Mr. Crepsley said pompously, then added beneath his breath, "but I will miss her. With all my heart and soul, I miss her.
Darren Shan
#37. Liberty plucks justice by the nose; The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart Goes all decorum.
William Shakespeare
#38. I wish to speak with all respect of persons, but sometimes I must pinch myself to keep awake, and preserve the due decorum. They melt so fast into each other, that they are like grass and trees, and it needs an effort to treat them as individuals.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#39. The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in every other period of crisis, the rules of sexual decorum were suspended due to emergency.
Gail Collins
#40. 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.
Mas Oyama
#41. As for the decorum at the time of a campaign, one must be mindful that he is a samurai. A person who loves beautification where it is unnecessary is fit for punishment.
Kato Kiyomasa
#42. I think that our popular theology has gained in decorum, and not in principle, over the superstitions it has displaced.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#43. I am sensible that my keenness of temper, and a vanity to be distinguished for the day, make me too often splash in life ... I amresolved to restrain myself and attend more to decorum.
James Boswell
#44. Looking back, you might say that Ambros Adelwarth the private man had ceased to exist, that nothing was left but his shell of decorum.
W.G. Sebald
#45. Americans also seem to believe that the monarchy is a kind of mediaeval hangover, encumbered by premodern notions of decorum; the reality is that the British monarchy, for good or ill, is a modern political institution perhaps the first modern political institution.
Adam Gopnik
#46. Temperance keeps the senses clear and unembarrassed, and makes them seize the object with more keenness and satisfaction. It appears with life in the face, and decorum in the person; it gives you the command of your head, and secures your health, and preserves you in a condition for business.
Jeremy Collier
#47. The movie cheerfully offends all civilized notions of taste, decorum, manners and hygiene ... is the movie vulgar? Vulgarity is when we don't laugh. When we laugh, it's merely human nature.
Roger Ebert
#48. To walk three miles, or four miles, or five miles, or whatever it is, above her ankles in dirt, and alone, quite alone! What could she mean by it? It seems to me to show an abominable sort of conceited independence, a most country-town indifference to decorum.
Jane Austen
#50. Nice to meet ya," Popeye said. He sort of held his hand out. "Do we shake?" "Of course," Ronald said, enveloping the small man's hand in his massive hairy one. "Decorum doesn't go away just because there are bodies on the ground." Ronald
Jake Bible
#51. Hypocrisy is said to be the homage that vice pays to virtue, - decorum is the outward expression of that homage; and if this be so, we must acknowledge that vice has latterly grown very humble indeed.
Charles Robert Maturin
#52. The most disgusting cad in the world is the man who on the grounds of decorum and morality avoids the game of love. He is one who puts his own ease and security above the most laudable of philanthropies.
H.L. Mencken
#53. His virtual home showed none of the ostentation of others in the Brotherhood, no Gothic-fortress-perched-on-impossible-cliffs or Caligulean excesses of decor (usually accompanied by an equally Caligulean want of decorum.)
Tad Williams
#54. I've always felt, as a writer, that radicals are fascinating because they're relations, they have a place in the American family. They're the relatives everyone wishes would go away. They're the embarrassments to decorum and good taste.
E.L. Doctorow
#55. The world of any moment is the merest appearance. Some great decorum, some fetish of government, some ephemeral trade, or war, or man, is cried up by half mankind and cried down by the other half, as if it all depended on this particular up or down.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#57. There is an innate decorum in man, and it is not fair to thrust Truth upon people when they don't expect it. Only the very generous are ready for Truth impromptu.
Christopher Morley
#58. Howard and Shirley were clothed, always, in an invisible layer of decorum that they never laid aside.
J.K. Rowling
#59. Should you be unfortunate enough to have vices, you may, to a certain degree, even dignify them by a strict observance of decorum;at least they will lose something of their natural turpitude.
Lord Chesterfield
#61. I have no limits, no filter, no class, no poise. No decorum. Just fun.
Kathy Griffin
#62. A film has to maintain a certain decorum in order to be broadcast to a vast audience.
Chuck Palahniuk
#63. (Some people regard the astonishing collapse of manners and civility in our society as a superficial event. They are wrong. The fate of decorum expresses the fate of a culture's dignity, its attitude toward its animating values.)
Roger Kimball
#64. I think we are all of us a pretty milky lot, without tea-table convictions and our radicalism that keeps so consistently within the bounds of decorum ... I'd like to annihilate these stupid colleges of ours ... instillers of stodginess.
John Dos Passos
#65. The monkey girl had made another unscheduled appearance, and it had landed her in jail again. When would she learn to behave with restraint and decorum?
Karen Joy Fowler
#66. In himself man is essentially a beast, only he butters it over like a slice of bread with a little decorum.
Erich Maria Remarque
#67. It is important that the decorum and dignity of the House is upheld at all times. The image of Parliament in the public mind should be one where proceedings, debates and discussions take place with a view to resolve issues through a constructive and co-operative approach.
Pratibha Patil
#68. Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose!
Robert Burns
#69. Politeness requires this thing; decorum that; ceremony has its forms, and fashion its laws, and these must always follow, never the promptings of our own nature.
Henri Rousseau
#70. He never had any sense of decorum ... 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,
L.M. Montgomery
#72. 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.
Mark McKinnon
#73. The coat went over his shoulder. It was too hot here for that, and hotter still where he was going. He'd have to wear a coat there. It was expected, one of those curious rules of formal behavior that demanded the maximum discomfort to attain the proper degree of decorum.
Tom Clancy
#74. I do not give a rat's front teeth about decorum right now," my father enunciated clearly and loudly. "I have a hole in my side! Have you not noticed?
Courtney Cole
#75. Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.
Charles Caleb Colton
#76. Decorum is highly overrated and probably causes cancer.
Jenny Lawson
#77. Gaming is the destruction of all decorum; the prince forgets at it his dignity, and the lady her modesty.
Jean Le Rond D'Alembert
#78. For a moment, I was captivated as I studied them side by side. My mother: the perfect picture of guardian excellence and decorum. My father: always capable of achieving his goals, no matter how twisted the means. Uneasily, I began to understand how I'd inherited my bizarre personality.
Richelle Mead
