Propriety Quotes
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Hypocrisy seemed to be the fashionable equivalent of propriety, discretion indistinguishable from morality, and the
— Loretta Chase
I'm waiting for the day when my children cease to find my domestic propriety reassuring and actually find it annoying.
— Rachel Cusk
There is an aptness, a propriety, a fitness in these things which one can understand perhaps better than explain.
— Anthony Trollope
She had learned propriety, which was the same as saying she had learned to trust only herself.
— Kristin Cashore
If a man has been your teacher for a day, you should treat him as your father for the rest of his life.
— Wu Cheng'en
The row of dolls watched her impassively from the bookshelf, their tea party propriety almost certainly offended.
— Holly Black
Emancipation, to be of any value to the slave, must be the free, voluntary act of the master, performed from a conviction of its propriety.
— Elijah Parish Lovejoy
That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Confucius himself has repeatedly taught that external appurtenances are as little a part of propriety as sounds are of music.
— Inazo Nitobe
Eating meat and drinking liquor are demonic vices. Those indulging in drink lose all sense of propriety, have no compassion or love and become demons.
— Sathya Sai Baba
To comport oneself with perfect propriety in Polygonal society, one ought to be a Polygon oneself.
— Edwin A. Abbott
Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.
— Charles Caleb Colton
A novice always behaves with propriety.
— Martial
She had wandered so far from the rules of propriety that she was making up new ones just to keep from sinking into the abyss.
— Sabrina Jeffries
Just because I tread heavily on propriety's toes doesn't mean I can't play the game when it's of use to me.
— Patrick Rothfuss
The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
— F.H. Bradley
Brings domesticity and common sense, and that propriety which every man loves, directly into this hurly-burly, and makes every bully ashamed.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
They were paragons of conservative propriety in public, but in private they swung like pinatas.
— Nicole Peeler
And like some part of himself that, two days ago, had thought pray and propriety were antidote enough to what ailed the world.
— Zoe Ferraris
Let a man be stimulated by poetry, established by the rules of propriety, and perfected by music.
— Confucius
Genius disregards the boundaries of propriety. Genius is permitted to shout if shouting is productive.
— Lois Lowry
Those expressions are omitted which can not with propriety be read aloud in the family.
— Thomas Bowdler
A certain class of novels may with propriety be called fables.
— Richard Whately
IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even principle.
— Joseph Lancaster
I'm a gentleman, if nothing else. It's taken me years to become one, but finally I have a sense of propriety.
— Eric Stoltz
It is said that the propriety even of old Cato often yielded to the exciting influence of the grape.
— Horace
Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.
— Pope Leo XIII
How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Regarding vengeance and arch-enemies, one must not only be timely but prideful, and pride exacts propriety.
— Adam Levin
A prig always finds a last refuge in responsibility.
— Jean Cocteau
Worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Architecture depends on Order, Arrangement, Eurythmy, Symmetry , Propriety , and Economy.
— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal delicacy, propriety, and judgment?
— Jonathan Swift
But wine was the great assassin of both tradition and propriety, and now the Alethi elite danced with abandon.
— Brandon Sanderson
A deviation from propriety scarcely ever escapes punishment.
— Regina Maria Roche
Conduct! Is conduct everything? One may conduct oneself excellently, and yet break one's heart.
— Anthony Trollope
Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety.
— Joseph Lancaster
Patience and propriety. It was the only graceful thing to do.
— Patrick Rothfuss
Propriety is the least of all laws, and the most observed.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Modern Christians should not mistake our post-Victorian sense of propriety for moral purity.
— Gene Edward Veith Jr.
Northerners are exactly like their weather - cold and boring. And I swear, none of them has one iota of etiquette or propriety.
— Beth Hoffman
Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation.
— Lawana Blackwell
Fashionable dances as now carried on are revolting to every feeling of delicacy and propriety and are fraught with the greatest danger to millions.
— Horace Bushnell
Cuban-heeled stockings; not the sort of thing you could buy for another man's wife.
— Ashley Warlick
There will be no propriety in the spectacle of an elegant interior approached by a low mean entrance.
— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
Her choice ruins the lives of the people she cares most about. Because she picked propriety over passion. Head over heart.
— Kody Keplinger
Politeness has been defined to be artificial good-nature; but we may affirm, with much greater propriety, that good-nature is natural politeness.
— Stanislaw Leszczynski
Love is taking care of oneself by freeing one's mind of worries and conducting one self with propriety.
— Master Cheng Yen
The ladies of Cranford always dressed with chaste elegance and propriety ...
— Elizabeth Gaskell
Propriety of manners, and consideration for others, are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Because partisanship has made anything fair, which honor and propriety might once have kept quiet.
— Stephanie Dray
Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established
— Confucius
A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.
— Robert A. Heinlein
It is the effect of scarcity; one's rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper.
— Mohsin Hamid
The propriety of a law, in a constitutional light, must always be determined by the nature of the powers upon which it is founded.
— Alexander Hamilton
Propriety's never been Adrian's strong suit.
— Richelle Mead
All prejudice presents itself as piety, propriety.
— Hal Duncan