#decorum

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

#crowded #decorum #either #existence #filled

Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose! ↗

— Robert Burns

#cant #characters #decorum #lose #them

Observe decorum, and it will open a path to morality. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#morality #observe #open #path #will

I have no limits, no filter, no class, no poise. No decorum. Just fun. ↗

— Kathy Griffin

#decorum #filter #fun #i #just

When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out. ↗

— Abbie Hoffman

#dignity #free #free men #men #only

Necessity dispenseth with decorum. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#necessity

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

#covered #decorum #every #every man #his

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

#been #continuity #decorum #easy #explosion