The distinguishing trait of people accustomed to good society is a calm, imperturbable quiet which pervades all their actions and habits, from the greatest to the least. They eat in quiet, move in quiet, live in quiet, and lose their wife, or even their money, in quiet; while low persons cannot take up either a spoon or an affront without making such an amazing noise about it.

Pelham; or, The adventures of a gentleman [by E.G.E.L. Bulwer-Lytton]. by sir E. Bulwer Lytton (ed. 1849)