Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Any girl that's in a professional setting has to have a certain amount of decorum, but there's always a different story going… — Stana Katic 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
To a high degree we are, through art and science, cultured. We are civilized - perhaps too much for our own good… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I do have a very conscious desire not to be academic. I'm antiacademic. I hate jargon. I hate that sort of pretension.… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“I had only to remember that centuries before, men fell in battle for the daughter of Troy, that passions carried greater weight… — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play. — Bobby Jones Copy Share Image
When the photographer Philippe Halsman said, 'Jump,' no one asked how high. People simply pushed off or leapt up to the extent… — Philippe Halsman Copy Share Image
Oftentimes, if you're talking to a seasoned interviewer who asks you a question, they may do a follow-up if they didn't quite… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
All fear of 'offensive' speech is bourgeois and reactionary. Historically, profane or bawdy language was common in both the upper and the… — Camille Paglia 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
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
... 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
For a moment, I was captivated as I studied them side by side. My mother: the perfect picture of guardian excellence and… — Richelle Mead 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
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
Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
