Decorum Quote by Thomas Carlyle Download Open image “Necessity dispenseth with decorum.” — Thomas Carlyle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Decorum
Form, color, composition, drawing, are auxiliaries, any one of which... can be dispensed with. — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Orders and decorations are necessary in order to dazzle the people. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I shall be supplied with whatever I need; and, if I have not everything I desire, I may conclude it is either not fit… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession;… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Let Time and Chance combine, combine! Let Time and Chance combine! The fairest love from heaven above, That love of yours was mine, My… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Any girl that's in a professional setting has to have a certain amount of decorum, but there's always a different story going on, when… — Stana Katic Copy Share Image
Unsuccessful candidates for the Presidency should be quietly hanged as a matter of public sanitation and decorum. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It is important that the decorum and dignity of the House is upheld at all times. The image of Parliament in the public mind… — Pratibha Patil Copy Share Image
A man who understands decorum and the courtesies is a great treasure; I hope to train and send into society as many such men… — Mas Oyama Copy Share Image
Drinking can not be sacramentalised except in religions which set no store on decorum. The worship of Dionysos or the Celtic god of beer… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The most disgusting cad in the world is the man who on the grounds of decorum and morality avoids the game of love. He… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
As for the decorum at the time of a campaign, one must be mindful that he is a samurai. A person who loves beautification… — Kato Kiyomasa Copy Share Image
The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in every other… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
To a high degree we are, through art and science, cultured. We are civilized - perhaps too much for our own good - in… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I do have a very conscious desire not to be academic. I'm antiacademic. I hate jargon. I hate that sort of pretension. I am… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
