Decorum Quotes
45 quotes by 42 authors
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Necessity dispenseth with decorum.
— Thomas Carlyle
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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…
— Kato Kiyomasa
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The most disgusting cad in the world is the man who on the grounds of decorum and morality avoids the game of love. He is…
— H. L. Mencken
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There are few things that so touch us with instinctive revulsion as a breach of decorum.
— Thorstein Veblen
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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…
— Etienne Francois, duc de Choiseul
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What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact.
— Donald E. Williams, Jr.
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The fabliau, then, is a short story that is a tall story. It combines a burly blurting of dirty words with a reveling in humiliations…
— Christopher Ricks
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The sight of a paunchy playboy groping a scantily-dressed Diana must appal and humiliate Prince William... As the mother of two young sons she ought…
— Lynda Lee-Potter
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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 prose, A Bit…
— Nii Parkes
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At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked…
— Salvatore Quasimodo
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As Sokrates tells it, your story begins the moment Eros enters you. That incursion is the biggest risk of your life. How you handle it…
— Anne Carson
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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…
— Mas Oyama
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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 the romantic intrigue…
— Philip K. Jason
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Identification with one's office or title is very attractive indeed, which is precisely why so many men are nothing more than the decorum accorded to…
— Carl Jung
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
— Abbie Hoffman
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Liberty plucks justice by the nose; The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart Goes all decorum.
— William Shakespeare
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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 the relatives everyone…
— E L Doctorow
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Presidents should do whatever possible and practical to encourage an environment of cooperation and bipartisanship. And they should maintain a certain level of decorum, diplomacy…
— Mark McKinnon
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Another soldier has been killed. Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.
— William C. Brown
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They [the mathematicians of the Enlightenment] defined their terms vaguely and used their methods loosely, and the logic of their arguments was made to fit…
— Tobias Dantzig
Who Wrote These Decorum Quotes
42 authors contributed a total of 45 Decorum Quotes, led by these top contributors: