Public Decorum Quotes

People need to stop filming things at festivals.

Ceremonies are the outworks of manners.

Never laughing too loudly in a restaurant no matter how good the joke.

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.

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

We're not supposed to mention f***ing in mixed company, but that's exactly where it takes place.

In New York, as long as you're not peeing in someone's doorway, everyone thinks you're a gentleman. I feel like my behavior goes over better on the streets of New York.

So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.

We've all lost our temper at some time. Unfortunately, not all of us have done it in a public setting.

I did learn that some of the things that are great for locker rooms are inappropriate for political discourse. That's a wisdom I've garnered.

My telephone manners were, well, offensive to some. As I lugged my cell around, yammering away, I noticed cold stares from passersby who viewed me as a kind of techno-terrorist, or at least incredibly rude.

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

Milwaukee is really quiet. The people here are really respectful. They can see me in the street, walking on the road. I can go to anyplace in Milwaukee without people being all over me. I appreciate that.

I never heckle. I never swear.

Politeness, however, acts the lady's maid to our thoughts; and they are washed, dressed, curled, rouged, and perfumed, before they are presented to the public.

I'm never going to get in a fight in public again.

In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.

Let us behave like ladies and gentlemen and refrain from damaging property.

Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance.

A woman shouldn't heckle. In the public eye, you have to represent not only you but your spouse, too. You have to be a lady. She just has to sit there, clap, and look pretty.

If you work in a public space, you have to be aware that no one is buying a ticket.