"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… — Kato Kiyomasa
• The most disgusting cad in the world is the man who on the grounds of decorum and morality avoids the… — 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… — 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… — Christopher Ricks
• The sight of a paunchy playboy groping a scantily-dressed Diana must appal and humiliate Prince William... As the mother of… — 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… — Nii Parkes
• At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover… — Salvatore Quasimodo
• As Sokrates tells it, your story begins the moment Eros enters you. That incursion is the biggest risk of your… — Anne Carson
• A man who understands decorum and the courtesies is a great treasure; I hope to train and send into society… — 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… — Philip K. Jason

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