Decorum Quotes
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Decorum Quotes & Sayings
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For nothing is more suitable to persons of gravity and decorum than to endure minor inconvenience with constancy
— C.S. Lewis
admitted it to be no more than due decorum." - Emma
— Jane Austen
Necessity dispenseth with decorum.
— Thomas Carlyle
I'm a CEO of a public company. You have to show decorum.
— Ivan Glasenberg
There are few things that so touch us with instinctive revulsion as a breach of decorum.
— Thorstein Veblen
Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Gaming is the destruction of all decorum; the prince forgets at it his dignity, and the lady her modesty.
— Jean Le Rond D'Alembert
What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact.
— Donald E. Williams Jr.
Gracefulness is a correct life: sensuality which contemplates and forms itself.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Decorum that bug-bear which deters so many from bliss until the opportunity for bliss has forever gone by. — Edgar Allan Poe
Don't limp in front of the lame.
— Francois Rabelais
A film has to maintain a certain decorum in order to be broadcast to a vast audience.
— Chuck Palahniuk
Decorum is highly overrated and probably causes cancer.
— Jenny Lawson
In himself man is essentially a beast, only he butters it over like a slice of bread with a little decorum.
— Erich Maria Remarque
Liberty plucks justice by the nose; The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart Goes all decorum.
— William Shakespeare
Oh get over it Cecilia! You are no longer human. Such decorum doesn't exist amongst our kind
— Eve Masters
Starfleet, where keeping decorum ranked just beneath exploration as its reason for existing.
— John Jackson Miller
He remembered lesson #76.5 from Man Decorum 101: Never tell a smart, pissed-off female what to do. Ask her. Nicely. Preferably with roses in hand.
— Stephanie Rowe
Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Unsuccessful candidates for the Presidency should be quietly hanged as a matter of public sanitation and decorum.
— H.L. Mencken
Boast quietly, with decorum.
— Mason Cooley
I think that our popular theology has gained in decorum, and not in principle, over the superstitions it has displaced.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose!
— Robert Burns
You have to adhere to a certain morality, a certain level of decorum, or else you'll be punished and labeled.
— Margaret Cho
Jesus loved, praised, and rewarded one thing: desperation for God that superseded decorum.
— Mark Batterson
Observe decorum, and it will open a path to morality.
— Mason Cooley
