Plutarch Quotes

Not stepping over the bounds of modesty.

Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.

I've got confidence that most people in America still have a decent sense of manners, propriety, morality.

My mother would kill me if I posed nude! My mother raised me with certain standards.

We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.

Those expressions are omitted which can not with propriety be read aloud in the family.

Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.

I've managed to keep my clothes on for everything I've done so far.

A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.

They shall not reveal any parts of their bodies, except that which is necessary.

There are necessary taboos and essential decencies in every morally healthy society.

There is a fine line between sensuousness and vulgarity. I will not cross that line.

Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.

Decency cannot be discussed without indecency!

If it be ungentlemanly to kiss and tell, it is still further from gentlemanliness to pray and tell.

Modesty and chastity are twins

I find it awfully difficult to determine if the habit of talking about oneself at length runs contrary to the basic rules of propriety, or if instead the man exempt from this vice is rare.

Howard and Shirley were clothed, always, in an invisible layer of decorum that they never laid aside.

An affected laugh shows lack of self-respect in a man and lewdness in a woman. It is carelessness to go about with one's hands inside the slits in the sides of his hakama.

As to modesty and decency, if we are simians we have done well, considering: but if we are something else-fallen angels-we have indeed fallen far.

There's nothing wrong with my tits, but I don't go around throwing them in people's faces!

There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.

Decorum -- that bug-bear which deters so many from bliss until the opportunity for bliss has forever gone by.

What do you think dignity's all about?' The directness of the inquiry did, I admit, take me rather by surprise. 'It's rather a hard thing to explain in a few words, sir,' I said. 'But I suspect it comes down to not removing one's clothing in public.

A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed.