Quotes about Decorum

Leisure with dignity.

Jesus loved, praised, and rewarded one thing: desperation for God that superseded decorum.

But one clear difference was that he had acquired almost no formal sort of social discipline—he could not even attempt to imitate decorum. He could not really converse, for instance, not in the sense of sharing information, or of a balanced back-and-forth conversation. He neither particularly listened to what was said to him, nor particularly considered what he said in response (one reason he was so repetitive).

I am saying this for your own good, not to restrict you, but in order to promote proper decorum and undivided devotion to the Lord.

But everything must be done in a proper and orderly manner.

Straightforwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness.

Its avowed purpose is to excite sexual desire, which, I should have thought, is unnecessary in the case of the young, inconvenient in the case of the middle aged, and unseemly in the old.

The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add.

Let thy carriage be such as becomes a man grave settled and attentive to that which is spoken. Contradict not, at every turn, what others say.

Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity.

women and girls begin to bare themselves behind and in front, and there is nobody to punish and hold in check, and besides, God's word is mocked.

It starts when you begin to overlook good manners. Any time you quit hearing Sir and Mam the end is pretty much in sight...