Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor. — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
I'm waiting for the day when my children cease to find my domestic propriety reassuring and actually find it annoying. — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety. — Joseph Lancaster Copy Share Image
The propriety of a law, in a constitutional light, must always be determined by the nature of the powers upon which it… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It is the effect of scarcity; one’s rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
You can be assured that I need no one's guidance in anything concerning propriety. — Marie Antoinette Copy Share Image
If a man has no humaneness what can his propriety be like? If a man has no humaneness what can his happiness… — Confucius Copy Share Image
I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies… — Maria Mitchell Copy Share Image
If the people are governed by laws and punishment is used to maintain order, they will try to avoid the punishment but… — Confucius Copy Share Image
I find it awfully difficult to determine if the habit of talking about oneself at length runs contrary to the basic rules… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
Propriety is that perfection of style which comes when a work is authoritatively constructed on approved principles. It arises from prescription, from… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation.… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Ceremony forbids us to express by words things that are lawful and natural, and we obey it; reason forbids us to do… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The happy man . . . will be always or at least most often employed in doing and contemplating the things that… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Rhetoric is useful because truth and justice are in their nature stronger than their opposites; so that if decisions be made, not… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The love of action is a principle of a much stronger and more doubtful nature. It often leads to anger, to ambition,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“I don't want her to know the truth about us." "I'm merely going to explain to explain that I'm not Nathaniel's mistress."… — Sabrina Jeffries Copy Share Image
Constitutions are not designed for metaphysical or logical subtleties, for niceties of expression, for critical propriety, for elaborate shades of meaning, or… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
Everything we did was done in form and with propriety, and the result of our proceedings is the document [the Quebec Resolutions]… — Thomas D'Arcy McGee Copy Share Image
Even the street, the sunshine, the very air had a special Sunday quality. We walked differently on Sundays, with greater propriety and… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
Christ took hold of the work of the world's saving in a larger way than it is possible for us to do,… — Charles Henry Parkhurst Copy Share Image
To be a pleasant person, you would at least need to see the point of being a pleasant person, or have it… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
It is the censor's business to make a judgment about the propriety of the content or message of the proposed expressive activity.… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Whamming someone smaller than oneself in order to teach that person civilized behavior is not within Miss Manners' concept of propriety, much… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
If a man is not good, what has he to do with the rules of propriety? If he is not good, what… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Proportion and propriety are among the best secrets of domestic wisdom; and there is no surer test of integrity than a well-proportioned… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Eating meat and drinking liquor are demonic vices. Those indulging in drink lose all sense of propriety, have no compassion or love… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let a man be stimulated by poetry, established by the rules of propriety, and perfected by music. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Those expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in the family. — Thomas Bowdler Copy Share Image
Politeness has been defined to be artificial good-nature; but we may affirm, with much greater propriety, that good-nature is natural politeness. — Stanisław I Leszczyński Copy Share Image
There will be no propriety in the spectacle of an elegant interior approached by a low mean entrance. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Fashionable dances as now carried on are revolting to every feeling of delicacy and propriety and are fraught with the greatest danger… — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“She had learned propriety, which was the same as saying she had learned to trust only herself.” — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
The censor is always quick to justify his function in terms that are protective of society. But the First Amendment, written in… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
By going on the defensive. [...] libertarians are, inadvertently, conceding that speech should be policed for propriety, and that those who violate… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
“If I always behave with propriety, no matter what it costs me to suppress my own desires, then that is the measure… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Far better, and more cheerfully, I could dispense with some part of the downright necessaries of life, than with certain circumstances of… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
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