I have no limits, no filter, no class, no poise. No decorum. Just fun.
Observe decorum, and it will open a path to morality.
Don't limp in front of the lame.
Necessity dispenseth with decorum.
Howard and Shirley were clothed, always, in an invisible layer of decorum that they never laid aside.
What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact.
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.
Gracefulness is a correct life: sensuality which contemplates and forms itself.
Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.
For a moment, I was captivated as I studied them side by side. My mother: the perfect picture of guardian excellence and decorum. My father: always capable of achieving his goals, no matter how twisted the means. Uneasily, I began to understand how I’d inherited my bizarre personality.
There are few things that so touch us with instinctive revulsion as a breach of decorum.
When the photographer Philippe Halsman said, 'Jump,' no one asked how high. People simply pushed off or leapt up to the extent that physical ability and personal decorum allowed. In that airborne instant Mr. Halsman clicked the shutter. He called his method jumpology. The idea of having people jump for the camera can seem like a gimmick, but it is telling that jumpology shares a few syllables with psychology. As Halsman, who died in 1979, said, 'When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping, and the mask falls, so that the real person appears. '
There's an honesty to the wolf world that is liberating. There's no diplomacy, no decorum. You tell your enemy you hate him; you show your admiration by confessing the truth. That directness doesn't work with humans, who are masters of subterfuge. Does this dress make me look fat? Do you really love me? Did you miss me? When a person asks this, she doesn't want to know the real answer. She wants you to lie to her. After two years of living with wolves, I had forgotten how many lies it takes to build a relationship.
When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
Unsuccessful candidates for the Presidency should be quietly hanged as a matter of public sanitation and decorum.
Boast quietly, with decorum.
You have to adhere to a certain morality, a certain level of decorum, or else you'll be punished and labeled.
Another soldier has been killed. Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.
Conventions vs. spontaneity. This is a dialectical choice, it depends on the assessment you make of your own times. If you judge that your own time is ridden with empty insincere formalities, you plump for spontaneity, for indecorous behavior even. . . Much of morality is the task of compensating for one's age. One assumes unfashionable virtues, in an indecorous time. In a time hollowed out by decorum, one must school oneself in spontaneity.
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.
