H. P. Lovecraft Quotes

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

The American sense of decorum is falling apart.

Now, it is well known, that a man may with more impunity be guilty of an actual breach either of real good breeding or of good morals, than appear ignorant of the most minute point of fashionable etiquette.

The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly.

it was always insolent for a common man to take a chair in the presence of a lady - the word LADY, we may be sure, capitalized in her mind, and denoting not sex but rank.

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

A gentleman never talks about his tailor.

People don't know how to behave in public anymore.

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

Gentlemen don't do that.

A gentleman should never take his hat off with a flourish.

I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies.

Our manners, our civilization, and all the good things connected with manners and civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles: I mean the spirit of a gentleman, and the spirit of religion.

Etiquette has no regard for moral qualities.

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

It is disgusting to pick your teeth; what is vulgar is to use a gold toothpick.

Insofar as he'd formed any opinion of her, it was that she suffered from misplaced gentility and the mistaken belief that etiquette meant good breeding. She mistook mannerisms for manners.

The English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty.

It is in bad taste," is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce.

A gentleman does not appear to know more or to be more than those with whom he is thrown into company.

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

No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.

All well bred persons lie - Besides, you are a woman; you must never speak what you think.

Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.

In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved.