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Decorum Quotes

Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

Thomas Carlyle
Decorum

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

Mason Cooley
Path, Morality, Decorum

What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact.

Donald E. Williams, Jr.
Ironic, Absence, Decorum

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

J. K. Rowling
Layers, Invisible, Decorum

Gracefulness is a correct life: sensuality which contemplates and forms itself.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Decorum, Form, Sensuality

There are few things that so touch us with instinctive revulsion as a breach of decorum.

Thorstein Veblen
Respect, Decorum, Revulsion
Thorstein Veblen (2016). “THE THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASS: An Economic Study of American Institutions and a Social Critique of Conspicuous Consumption: Development of Institutions That Shape Society and Influence the Livelihood of Citizens: Based on Sociological & Economical Theories of Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Adam Smith and Herbert Spencer”, p.32, e-artnow

Unsuccessful candidates for the Presidency should be quietly hanged as a matter of public sanitation and decorum.

H. L. Mencken
Matter, Decorum, Should

You have to adhere to a certain morality, a certain level of decorum, or else you'll be punished and labeled.

Margaret Cho
Levels, Morality, Decorum
"Don't Call Them Comediennes". Elle interview, www.elle.com. June 21, 2016.

Don't limp in front of the lame.

Francois Rabelais
Lame, Decorum, Fronts

Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.

Charles Caleb Colton
Women, Decorum, Length
Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.151

Boast quietly, with decorum.

Mason Cooley
Decorum, Boast

Another soldier has been killed. Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.

William C. Brown
Art, Soldier, Decorum

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