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I have no limits, no filter, no class, no poise. No decorum. Just fun. — Kathy Griffin

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

When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out. — Abbie Hoffman

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

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 I can. — Mas Oyama

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 she goes home. — Stana Katic

Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The trouble with dead people today is they have no sense of decorum — Vicky Loebel

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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

In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play. — Bobby Jones

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

Looking back, you might say that Ambros Adelwarth the private man had ceased to exist, that nothing was left but his shell of decorum. — W.G. Sebald

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

I do not give a rat's front teeth about decorum right now," my father enunciated clearly and loudly. "I have a hole in my side! Have you not noticed? — Courtney Cole

It's shaming sometimes, how the body will not, or cannot, lie about emotions. Who, for decorum's sake, has ever slowed his heart, or muted a blush? — Ian McEwan

Observe decorum, and it will open a path to morality. — Mason Cooley

Howard and Shirley were clothed, always, in an invisible layer of decorum that they never laid aside. — J.K. Rowling

Writing an upbeat aphorism is a temptation, but decorum forbids. — Mason Cooley