Decorum Quotes

Decorum Quote of the day

Writing an upbeat aphorism is a temptation, but decorum forbids.

The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.

When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.

Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

Observe decorum, and it will open a path to morality.

In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.

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.

I have no limits, no filter, no class, no poise. No decorum. Just fun.

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.

What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact.

Gaming is the destruction of all decorum; the prince forgets at it his dignity, and the lady her modesty.

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.

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.

Howard and Shirley were clothed, always, in an invisible layer of decorum that they never laid aside.

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.

Decorum -- that bug-bear which deters so many from bliss until the opportunity for bliss has forever gone by.

Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience.

Gracefulness is a correct life: sensuality which contemplates and forms itself.

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

Unsuccessful candidates for the Presidency should be quietly hanged as a matter of public sanitation and decorum.

The movie cheerfully offends all civilized notions of taste, decorum, manners and hygiene... The movie is vulgar? Vulgarity is when we don't laugh. When we laugh, it's merely human nature.

You have to adhere to a certain morality, a certain level of decorum, or else you'll be punished and labeled.

It is 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?

Don't limp in front of the lame.

Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.

Liberty plucks justice by the nose; The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart Goes all decorum.

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.

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.

Boast quietly, with decorum.

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.

Things that are in "bad taste" are often renegade and rebellious. They go against the status quo, and the laws of decorum and modesty. And that can be really thrilling.

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.

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.

Another soldier has been killed. Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.

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.