I do think of my reader, or listener, really, more often, if I give a lecture, for example, and I know that… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
Howard and Shirley were clothed, always, in an invisible layer of decorum that they never laid aside. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The British have their own conception of what constitutes the typical American. He must have a flavor of the Wild West about… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Something is funny, most of all, because it's true, and because the velocity of insight into this truth exceeds our normal standards.… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
If in some smothering dreams you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
They [the mathematicians of the Enlightenment] defined their terms vaguely and used their methods loosely, and the logic of their arguments was… — Tobias Dantzig 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
I think we are all of us a pretty milky lot, without tea-table convictions and our radicalism that keeps so consistently within… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Gracefulness is a correct life: sensuality which contemplates and forms itself. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel 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
There are few things that so touch us with instinctive revulsion as a breach of decorum. — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
In the woods, too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have no limits, no filter, no class, no poise. No decorum. Just fun. — Kathy Griffin Copy Share Image
A film has to maintain a certain decorum in order to be broadcast to a vast audience. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Nothing, indeed, could be more unlike the tone of the [Patristic] Fathers, than the cold, passionless, and prudential theology of the eighteenth… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky 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
There is an innate decorum in man, and it is not fair to thrust Truth upon people when they don't expect it.… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Of all modern notions, the worst is this: that domesticity is dull. Inside the home, they say, is dead decorum and routine;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As Sokrates tells it, your story begins the moment Eros enters you. That incursion is the biggest risk of your life. How… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
Liberty plucks justice by the nose; The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart Goes all decorum. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
From a tale one expects a bit of wildness, of exaggeration and dramatic effect. The tale has no inherent concern with decorum,… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
You have to adhere to a certain morality, a certain level of decorum, or else you'll be punished and labeled. — Margaret Cho 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
[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
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