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
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
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
Hope's Folly is a rapid-fire romp through futuristic political intrigue and high-risk passion The tug of war between decorum and passion keeps… — Philip K. Jason Copy Share Image
Another soldier has been killed. Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
“He circles the shrines, scanning each of them. There's one made in exclusively soft shades of pink, with a bouquet of blush… — Kiana Krystle 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
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
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 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
At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal… — Salvatore Quasimodo 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
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
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
Maybe, he said hesitantly, maybe there is a beast. The assembly cried out savagely and Ralph stood up in amazement. You, Simon?… — William Golding 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
Americans also seem to believe that the monarchy is a kind of mediaeval hangover, encumbered by premodern notions of decorum; the reality… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
I am sensible that my keenness of temper, and a vanity to be distinguished for the day, make me too often splash… — James Boswell 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 shaming sometimes how the body will not, or cannot, lie about emotions. Who, for decorum’s sake, has ever slowed his… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
