Propriety Quotes
Propriety Quote of the day
Architecture depends on Order, Arrangement, Eurythmy, Symmetry , Propriety , and Economy.
Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established
No man can well doubt the propriety of placing a president of the United States under the most solemn obligations to preserve, protect, and defend the constitution.
Propriety and single interest divides the people of a land and the whole world into parties and is the cause of all wars and bloodshed and contention everywhere
Oratory is good only if it has the qualities of fitness for the occasion, propriety of style, and originality of treatment, while in the case of letters there is no such need whatsoever.
The first monster that an audience has to be scared of is the filmmaker. They have to feel in the presence of someone not confined by the normal rules of propriety and decency.
Success is not worth rejoicing over, failure is not worth grieving over.
There will be no propriety in the spectacle of an elegant interior approached by a low mean entrance.
The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
The superior man, extensively studying all learning, and keeping himself under the restraint of the rules of propriety, may thus likewise not overstep what is right.
If a man has no humaneness what can his propriety be like? If a man has no humaneness what can his happiness be like?
Propriety of manners, and consideration for others, are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.
Let a man be stimulated by poetry, established by the rules of propriety, and perfected by music.
I find it awfully difficult to determine if the habit of talking about oneself at length runs contrary to the basic rules of propriety, or if instead the man exempt from this vice is rare.
I'm a gentleman, if nothing else. It's taken me years to become one, but finally I have a sense of propriety.
Look not at what is contrary to propriety; listen not to what is contrary to propriety; speak not what is contrary to propriety; make no movement which is contrary to propriety.
I am too inexperienced and ignorant to conduct myself with propriety in this town, where every thing is new to me, and many things are unaccountable and perplexing.
Generosity, pleasing address, courage and propriety of conduct are not acquired, but are inbred qualities.
If there are such things as political axioms, the propriety of the judicial power of a government being co-extensive with its legislative, may be ranked among the number.
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.
Fashionable dances as now carried on are revolting to every feeling of delicacy and propriety and are fraught with the greatest danger to millions.
If a man is not good, what has he to do with the rules of propriety? If he is not good, what has he to do with music?
I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
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.
The propriety of thoughts and words, which are the hidden beauties of a play, are but confusedly judged in the vehemence of action.
Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety.
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?
There are as many kinds of modesty as there are races. To the English woman it is a duty; to the French woman a propriety.
Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation.
Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.
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.
Oh, propriety," says Mrs Benjamin. "We're always so concerned with propriety. Even in total madness, we still stick to our hierarchies and chains of command.
Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman; dignity is proper to noblemen; and majesty to kings.
Anyone must be mainly ignorant or thoughtless, who is surprised at everything he sees; or wonderfully conceited who expects everything to conform to his standard of propriety.
It is said that the propriety even of old Cato often yielded to the exciting influence of the grape.
Far better, and more cheerfully, I could dispense with some part of the downright necessaries of life, than with certain circumstances of elegance and propriety in the daily habits of using them.
Politeness has been defined to be artificial good-nature; but we may affirm, with much greater propriety, that good-nature is natural politeness.
Money is, with propriety, considered as the vital principle of the body politic; as that which sustains its life and motion, and enables it to perform its most essential functions.
That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners.
I've got confidence that most people in America still have a decent sense of manners, propriety, morality.
The propriety of a law, in a constitutional light, must always be determined by the nature of the powers upon which it is founded.
