This indigested vomit of the Sea,Fell to the Dutch by Just Propriety. — Andrew Marvell Copy Share Image
“my mother used to say that nothing limited the human spirit like propriety.” — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Architecture depends on Order, Arrangement, Eurythmy, Symmetry , Propriety , and Economy. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
There's this line between propriety and how we really speak and how we really think. And I'm just trying to have fun… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors. — F. H. Bradley Copy Share Image
There are as many kinds of modesty as there are races. To the English woman it is a duty; to the French… — Hippolyte Taine Copy Share Image
“Conduct! Is conduct everything? One may conduct oneself excellently, and yet break one's heart.” — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If once a woman breaks through the barriers of decency, her ease is desperate; and if she goes greater lengths than the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
For proverbs are the pith, the proprieties, the proofs, the purities, the elegancies, as the commonest so the commendablest phrases of a… — John Florio Copy Share Image
A gentleman considers justice to be essential in everything. He practices it according to the principles of propriety. He brings it forth… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Money is, with propriety, considered as the vital principle of the body politic; as that which sustains its life and motion, and… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
One moment it's a cathedral, at another time there is no words to describe it when it ceases, for short periods of… — John Diefenbaker Copy Share Image
The same rule that teaches the propriety of a partition between the various branches of power, teaches us likewise that this partition… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Not just in matters of sexuality, but in all of life, never, ever, ever, fail to do something simply because it might… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
In reality the world is made of thousands of groups of about five hundred people, all of whom will spend their lives… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
He who today utters a bold truth that seems to shock some old institution with the premonition of destruction, and that scares… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The maxim of Cleobulus, "Mediocrity is best," has been long considered a universal principle, extending through the whole compass of life and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Nothing has so exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Let the girl be thoroughly developed in body and soul, not modeled, like a piece of clay, after some artificial specimen of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
In a certain sense, and to a certain extent, he [the president] is the representative of the people. He is elected by… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm,… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“She sang, as requested. There was much about love in the ballad: faithful love that refused to abandon its object; love that… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“He thinned his eyes into razor slits and took a step toward Constance Brandley. “Let us be clear, madam. ‘Company’ implies one… — Christi Caldwell Copy Share Image
“The main hallway of the Sternwood place was two stories high. Over the entrance doors, which would have let in a troop… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
If you cannot conduct yourself with propriety, give place to those who can. — Horace Copy Share Image
Avant-garde art jousts with propriety, but takes care never to unseat it. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
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