Decorum: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases

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Decorum: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases

  • Language ENG
  • Pages (approximate) 52
  • Item Code 0546553117
  • Published 2010-07-30
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Introduction

Ever need a fact or quotation on decorum? Designed for speechwriters, journalists, writers, researchers, students, professors, teachers, historians, academics, scrapbookers, trivia buffs and word lovers, this is the largest book ever created for this single word. It represents a compilation from a variety of sources with a linguistic emphasis on anything relating to the term “decorum,” including non-conventional usage and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities. The entries cover all parts of speech (noun, verb, adverb or adjective usage) as well as use in modern slang, pop culture, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This “data dump” results in many unexpected examples for decorum, since the editorial decision to include or exclude terms is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under “fair use” conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. Proceeds from this book are used to expand the content and coverage of Webster’s Online Dictionary (www.websters-online-dictionary.org).

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Familiar Quotations

Decorum – "Decency"

Immodest words admit if no defense, for want of decency is want of sense.–Wentworth Dillon

A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.–W. C. Fields

If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough.–Harold MacMillan

What do you gain, Soviet Union, from this miserable policy? Where is your decency? Would it be a disgrace for you to give up this battle?–Golda Meir

Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.–Henry Mencken

That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency.–John Quinton

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.–Theodore Roosevelt

Decorum – "Dignity"

There is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.–Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.–Aristotle

The sum of behaviour is to retain a man's own dignity, without intruding upon the liberty of others.–Francis Bacon

Table of Contents

  • Preface iv
  • Familiar Quotations 1
  • Decorum – "Decency" 1
  • Decorum – "Dignity" 1
  • Decorum, as opposed to "Rudeness" 2
  • Use in Literature 3
  • Decorum 3
  • Decorum – "Being" 13
  • Decorum – "Decency" 13
  • Decorum – "Dignity" 14
  • Decorum – "Eyes" 16
  • Decorum – "Graceful" 16
  • Decorum – "Gravity" 17
  • Decorum – "Great" 18
  • Decorum – "Heart" 19
  • Decorum – "Kept" 19
  • Decorum – "Life" 19
  • Decorum – "Little" 20
  • Decorum – "Men" 20
  • Decorum – "Manner" 22
  • Decorum – "Observed" 22
  • Decorum – "Ordered" 23
  • Decorum – "People" 24
  • Decorum – "Place" 25
  • Decorum – "Preserve" 25
  • Decorum – "Public" 26
  • Decorum – "Sense" 26
  • Decorum – "Young" 27
  • Nonfiction Usage 28
  • Script Usage 28
  • Journalism Usage 28
  • Legal Usage 29
  • Governmental Usage 29
  • Bibliographic Usage 29
  • Encyclopedic Usage 38
  • Lexicographic Usage 39
  • Index 46
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