Acceptable Conduct Quotes

Respectability offends my taste.

Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms accepted by the sense of all, can reach; the contradictors and railers at public and private tables, who are like terriers, who conceive it the duty of a dog of honor to growl at any passer-by, and do the honors of the house by barking him out of sight.

Much of a behavior acceptable today would be socially offensive in a saner or more logical arrangement.

Respectability is the state of never being caught doing anything which gives you pleasure.

Perhaps what you call conventionality, I call decency.

The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.

Good general-purpose manners nowadays may be said to consist in knowing how much you can get away with.

Certain types of loudmouthism should be a capital offense among decent people.

If it's not forbidden, then it's allowed

It is helpful to know the proper way to behave, so one can decide whether or not to be proper.

It's not illegal to be an asshole.

When it came to, like, appropriate behavior towards one another, it was - I was well-versed.

Decency, not to dare to do that in public which it is decent enough to do in private.

Etiquette is about all of human social behavior. Behavior is regulated by law when etiquette breaks down or when the stakes are high - violations of life, limb, property and so on. Barring that, etiquette is a little social contract we make that we will restrain some of our more provocative impulses in return for living more or less harmoniously in a community.