Decorum Quotes

45 quotes by 42 authors

Necessity dispenseth with decorum. — Thomas Carlyle
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
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
There are few things that so touch us with instinctive revulsion as a breach of decorum. — Thorstein Veblen
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
What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact. — Donald E. Williams, Jr.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out. — Abbie Hoffman
Liberty plucks justice by the nose; The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart Goes all decorum. — William Shakespeare
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
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
Another soldier has been killed. Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. — William C. Brown
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

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