Edward Young Quotes

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

My mother had all these maxims - like, classy girls never chew gum, never read comic books, never get their ears pierced, never get their hair dyed.

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

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

Gentlemen and ladies are sure of their ground. They pretend to nothing that they are not.

A gentleman never talks about his tailor.

People are pretty respectful for the most part.

I'm a gentleman, if nothing else. It's taken me years to become one, but finally I have a sense of propriety.

My mother is old-fashioned; she raised us like girls from a 19th-century book. My sisters and I are known for being the most polite girls in France. My mother wanted us to be like royalty: never ever will you be caught being rude, or superficial or being a star or whatever.

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

I've always been battling against my sense of dignity and refinement. I was embarrassed by any bodily functions when I was younger. I could never even blow my nose.

The people of Northern Italy are the most civilized people I have ever met.

Manners are more important than laws. Upon them, in great measure, the laws depend.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

The world prefers decorum to honesty.

Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.

No one teaches you how to be graceful.

I'm not disrespectful, I try to be polite.

Politeness is the chief sign of culture.

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

Human Beings are the only animals that blush, or need to.

Politeness does not always inspire goodness, equity, complaisance, and gratitude; it gives at least the appearance of these qualities, and makes man appear outwardly, as he should be within.

Being polite to a person is not a sign of respect for them. It is merely a sign of a good upbringing and a balanced nature.

It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.

Morals refine manners, as manners refine morals.