Gary Lineker Quotes

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

I lived in a world where social arrangements were taken for granted and assumed to be timeless. A child's obligation was to learn these usages, not to question them. The complexities of racial deportment were of a piece with learning manners and etiquette more generally.

What is often said in private may not be said in public.

People don't always behave the same way on different programmes. If you go to church you don't behave the same way you do at a party in the middle of the night.

True modesty avoids everything that is criminal; false modesty everything that is unfashionable.

Respectability offends my taste.

What's appropriate in America anymore?

In Sweden everybody has this perfect surface. Everyone's very polite and controls their feelings.

Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. I mean some people have beautiful manners but there's no kind of agreed form of manners.

We don't kiss in public. It's not done.

Something I miss terribly from the '60s - the most important phrase in the English language was, 'I got hung up.' Somebody says they got hung up, it's unassailable, you know? You don't go near that. Whoa! I know what that can be like.

I really have to edit myself - I need someone with a censor button around me all the time. I'm just a little unaware of what's deemed appropriate.

I was brought up with considerable discipline, and I was taught it wasn't proper to display certain very private emotions in public.

Society has taught us to suppress certain things and not do certain things.

I don't want to put anyone down, but you won't see any twerking from me.

We all just kinda did everything we thought we were supposed to do and girls dated the guys they were supposed to and did things with the guys they were supposed to.

Few people can resist doing what is universally expected of them. This invisible pressure is more difficult to stand against than individual tyranny.

All the movements of our body are not merely those dictated by impulse or weariness; they are the correct expression of what we consider decorous. Without impulses, we could take no part in social life; on the other hand, without inhibitions, we could not correct, direct, and utilize our impulses.

The world is so mysterious, and there's so many social interactions where I have no idea what I'm supposed to do - what's being asked of me, what's expected of me.

I keep the tantrums to a minimum because people don't want to see that.

I don't ever cross the line. I step right up to it. I put my toes on the line, but I don't ever cross that line. There are some barriers you just don't cross - you don't talk about religion; you don't talk about race. Those are lines I will never cross.

I tried to play the etiquette game - the respect game - for too long, and it didn't work out for me.

For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.

Though shyness per se was unacceptable, reserve was a mark of good breeding.

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established