So Stapes conducted a dinner for just the two of us, then informed me of a dozen small but important mistakes I had made. Setting down a dirty utensil was considered crude, for example. That meant it was perfectly acceptable to lick one's knife clean. In fact, if you didn't want to dirty your napkin it was the only seemly thing to do.
Quotes about seemly (9 Quotes)
It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair.
Even to the daughters of those , daughters something should be given, as is seemly, out of the estate of their maternal grandmother, on the score of affection.
It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.
White teeth, white hands, and neck as ivory white, Black eyes, black brows, black hairs that hide delight Red lips, red cheeks, and tops of nipples red, Long legs, long fingers, long locks of her head, Short feet, short ears, and teeth in measure short, Broad front, broad breast, broad hips in seemly sort, Straight legs, straight nose and straight her pleasures place, Full thighs, full buttocks, full her belly's space, Thin lips, thin eyelids, and hair thin and fine, Small mouth, small waist, small pupils of her eyes.
I must be free... free to do what I like, say what I like, write what I like, within the limits prescribed for me by my own sense of what is seemly and fitting.
Far more seemly to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money.
If it is not seemly, do it not if it is not true, speak it not.
To get a big hit single you've got to go a bit dance. You've got to go a bit Britney. I don't think I can do that - well, I could but it wouldn't look very seemly