Decorum: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases
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- Published 2010-07-30
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Introduction
Excerpt
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