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Necessity dispenseth with decorum. -- Thomas Carlyle
Observe decorum, and it will open a path to morality. -- Mason Cooley
I have no limits, no filter, no class, no poise. No decorum. Just fun. -- Kathy Griffin
When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out. -- Abbie Hoffman
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
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 period of crisis, the rules of sexual decorum were suspended due to emergency. -- Gail Collins
At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds. -- Salvatore Quasimodo
Presidents should do whatever possible and practical to encourage an environment of cooperation and bipartisanship. And they should maintain a certain level of decorum, diplomacy and decency. But, at the end of the day, presidents get elected to enact change. -- Mark McKinnon
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation. -- Walter Scott
It is important that the decorum and dignity of the House is upheld at all times. The image of Parliament in the public mind should be one where proceedings, debates and discussions take place with a view to resolve issues through a constructive and co-operative approach. -- Pratibha Patil
Decorum -- that bug-bear which deters so many from bliss until the opportunity for bliss has forever gone by. -- Edgar Allan Poe
Writing an upbeat aphorism is a temptation, but decorum forbids. -- Mason Cooley
Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose! -- Robert Burns
I'm a CEO of a public company. You have to show decorum. -- Ivan Glasenberg
Another soldier has been killed. Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. -- William C. Brown
What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact. -- Donald E. Williams, Jr.
A film has to maintain a certain decorum in order to be broadcast to a vast audience. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Liberty plucks justice by the nose; The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart Goes all decorum. -- William Shakespeare
I've always felt, as a writer, that radicals are fascinating because they're relations, they have a place in the American family. They're the relatives everyone wishes would go away. They're the embarrassments to decorum and good taste. -- E. L. Doctorow
The most disgusting cad in the world is the man who on the grounds of decorum and morality avoids the game of love. He is one who puts his own ease and security above the most laudable of philanthropies. -- H. L. Mencken
Oftentimes, if you're talking to a seasoned interviewer who asks you a question, they may do a follow-up if they didn't quite get it. It's rare that they'll do a third or fourth or fifth or sixth follow-up, because there's an implicit, agreed-upon decorum that they move on. Kids don't necessarily move on if they don't get it. -- Brian Greene
Identification with one's office or title is very attractive indeed, which is precisely why so many men are nothing more than the decorum accorded to them by society. In vain would one look for a personality behind the husk. Underneath one would find a very pitiable little creature. That is why the office is so attractive: it offers easy compensation for personal deficiencies. -- Carl Jung
Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own government, to levy their own taxes, and to make their own laws.... There was second, the liberty of the individual man to live his own life, within the limits of decency and decorum, as he pleased -- freedom from the despotism of the majority. -- H. L. Mencken
Boast quietly, with decorum. -- Mason Cooley
The old Lie:Dulce et decorum estPro patria mori. -- Wilfred Owen
When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out -- Abbie Hoffman
Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play. -- Bobby Jones
There are few things that so touch us with instinctive revulsion as a breach of decorum. -- Thorstein Veblen
Howard and Shirley were clothed, always, in an invisible layer of decorum that they never laid aside. -- J. K. Rowling
Unsuccessful candidates for the Presidency should be quietly hanged as a matter of public sanitation and decorum. -- H. L. Mencken
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Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths. -- Charles Caleb Colton
You have to adhere to a certain morality, a certain level of decorum, or else you'll be punished and labeled. -- Margaret Cho
Politeness requires this thing; decorum that; ceremony has its forms, and fashion its laws, and these must always follow, never the promptings of our own nature. -- Henri Rousseau
If the prudence of reserve and decorum dictates silence in some circumstances, in others prudence of a higher order may justify us in speaking our thoughts. -- Edmund Burke
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
It is 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
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
Democracy was supposed to champion freedom of speech, and yet the simple rules of table decorum could clamp down on the rights their forefathers had fought and died for. -- E.A. Bucchianeri
Things that are in "bad taste" are often renegade and rebellious. They go against the status quo, and the laws of decorum and modesty. And that can be really thrilling. -- Margaret Cho
Drinking can not be sacramentalised except in religions which set no store on decorum. The worship of Dionysos or the Celtic god of beer was a loud and disorderly affair. -- Aldous Huxley
The movie cheerfully offends all civilized notions of taste, decorum, manners and hygiene... is the movie vulgar? Vulgarity is when we don't laugh. When we laugh, it's merely human nature. -- Roger Ebert
There is an innate decorum in man, and it is not fair to thrust Truth upon people when they don't expect it. Only the very generous are ready for Truth impromptu. -- Christopher Morley
As for the decorum at the time of a campaign, one must be mindful that he is a samurai. A person who loves beautification where it is unnecessary is fit for punishment. -- Kato Kiyomasa
Should you be unfortunate enough to have vices, you may, to a certain degree, even dignify them by a strict observance of decorum;at least they will lose something of their natural turpitude. -- Lord Chesterfield
It is difficult to attack me directly on religion because I never speak of it. Formally I am a strict observer of decorum and in public affairs it is my principle to uphold religion. -- Etienne Francois, duc de Choiseul
I am sensible that my keenness of temper, and a vanity to be distinguished for the day, make me too often splash in life.... I amresolved to restrain myself and attend more to decorum. -- James Boswell

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