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- 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… — Kato Kiyomasa
- 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
- 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Nii Parkes
- At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal… — Salvatore Quasimodo
- As Sokrates tells it, your story begins the moment Eros enters you. That incursion is the biggest risk of your life. How… — Anne Carson
- A man who understands decorum and the courtesies is a great treasure; I hope to train and send into society as many… — Mas Oyama