Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori - It is a sweet and becoming thing to die for ones country. — Horace Copy Share Image
Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Howard and Shirley were clothed, always, in an invisible layer of decorum that they never laid aside. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play. — Bobby Jones Copy Share Image
Decorum -- that bug-bear which deters so many from bliss until the opportunity for bliss has forever gone by. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
A man who understands decorum and the courtesies is a great treasure; I hope to train and send into society as many… — Mas Oyama Copy Share Image
Should you be unfortunate enough to have vices, you may, to a certain degree, even dignify them by a strict observance of… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
Drinking can not be sacramentalised except in religions which set no store on decorum. The worship of Dionysos or the Celtic god… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Unsuccessful candidates for the Presidency should be quietly hanged as a matter of public sanitation and decorum. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Politeness requires this thing; decorum that; ceremony has its forms, and fashion its laws, and these must always follow, never the promptings… — Henri Rousseau Copy Share Image
As for the decorum at the time of a campaign, one must be mindful that he is a samurai. A person who… — Kato Kiyomasa Copy Share Image
[Barack] Obama's executive amnesty has been frozen via a stay by a judge on the appellate court. You remember, this is the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Conventions vs. spontaneity. This is a dialectical choice, it depends on the assessment you make of your own times. If you judge… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
It is important that the decorum and dignity of the House is upheld at all times. The image of Parliament in the… — Pratibha Patil Copy Share Image
... it was not very unusual at Washington for a lady to take the arm of a gentleman, who was neither her… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
Temperance keeps the senses clear and unembarrassed, and makes them seize the object with more keenness and satisfaction. It appears with life… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
“Araminta had generally considered the laws of etiquette as the rules of the chase, and divided them into categories: those which everyone… — Naomi Novik Copy Share Image
I wish to speak with all respect of persons, but sometimes I must pinch myself to keep awake, and preserve the due… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Naturally Shirley had known, as they slid stock words and phrases back and forth between them like beads on an abacus, that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An up-close portrait of middle-class Nigeria exploring the boundaries of morals and public decorum. Pitched between humor and despair, with stripped-down, evocative… — Nii Parkes Copy Share Image
The fabliau, then, is a short story that is a tall story. It combines a burly blurting of dirty words with a… — Christopher Ricks Copy Share Image
Through an arrow loop in the wall she saw a familiar horse and rider tearing across the camp toward the healing rooms.… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
There's an honesty to the wolf world that is liberating. There's no diplomacy, no decorum. You tell your enemy you hate him;… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“he had acquired almost no formal sort of social discipline—he could not even attempt to imitate decorum.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
There are few things that so touch us with instinctive revulsion as a breach of decorum. — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
It is difficult to attack me directly on religion because I never speak of it. Formally I am a strict observer of… — Etienne Francois, duc de Choiseul Copy Share Image
The most disgusting cad in the world is the man who on the grounds of decorum and morality avoids the game of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Things that are in "bad taste" are often renegade and rebellious. They go against the status quo, and the laws of decorum… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
The movie cheerfully offends all civilized notions of taste, decorum, manners and hygiene... The movie is vulgar? Vulgarity is when we don't… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
If the prudence of reserve and decorum dictates silence in some circumstances, in others prudence of a higher order may justify us… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
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… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Identification with one's office or title is very attractive indeed, which is precisely why so many men are nothing more than the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The sight of a paunchy playboy groping a scantily-dressed Diana must appal and humiliate Prince William... As the mother of two young… — Lynda Lee-Potter Copy Share Image
“(Some people regard the astonishing collapse of manners and civility in our society as a superficial event. They are wrong. The fate… — Roger Kimball Copy Share Image
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