If the public safety be provided, liberty and propriety secured, justice administered, virtue encouraged, vice suppressed, and the true interest of the… — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
The definition of good prose is proper words in their proper places; of good verse, the most proper words in their proper… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Firstly, you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own respecting their propriety. Secondly, you must… — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
Oratory is good only if it has the qualities of fitness for the occasion, propriety of style, and originality of treatment, while… — Isocrates Copy Share Image
The responsibility of a minister is to step aside when there is a criminal investigation of the department. That protects the propriety… — Jack Layton Copy Share Image
Jewish nationalism means no more than recognition of the peoplehood of Israel, and of the propriety of that people's being a religio-cultural… — Milton Steinberg Copy Share Image
You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I do not mean that you could continue to do this with propriety or even with safety; I merely assert that the… — Jay Alan Sekulow Copy Share Image
I believe the powers of observation in numbers of very young children to be quite wonderful for its closeness and accuracy. Indeed,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words. Looking at certain illuminated corners of… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
I do not comprehend those rules of conduct that make us so content with self and so cold to those we love.… — Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse Copy Share Image
“A lengthy and painful discussion followed. It lasted through tea and dinner. It was revealed to Lady Beatrice that, though she had… — Kage Baker Copy Share Image
Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence, or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts; but to write… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I am sure," cried Catherine, "I did not mean to say anything wrong; but it is a nice book, and why should… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The constitutionality and propriety of the Federal Government assuming to enter into a novel and vast field of legislation, namely, that of… — Franklin Pierce Copy Share Image
Hitherto my observations have only aimed at a vindication of the provision in question, on the ground of theoretic propriety . .… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
All fear of 'offensive' speech is bourgeois and reactionary. Historically, profane or bawdy language was common in both the upper and the… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
In part of Lord Kames' Elements of Criticism, he says that "music improves the relish of a banquet." That I deny,--any more… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The fruit of humanity is devotion to one's parents. The fruit of righteousness is to respect one's elders. The fruit of wisdom… — Mencius Copy Share Image
Just supposing for the sake of the argument that there is a being of such a kind as that He may with… — John Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
Our large trading cities bear to me very nearly the aspect of monastic establishments in which the roar of the mill-wheel and… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Tis impossible to judge with much Præcision of the true Motives and Qualities of human Actions, or of the Propriety of Rules… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Any woman may act the part of a coquette successfully who has the reputation without the scruples of modesty. If a woman… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible to translate verbally and well at the same time; for the Latin (a most severe and compendious language)… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The man who barely abstains from violating either the person, or the estate, or the reputation of his neighbours, has surely very… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The authour who imitates his predecessors only by furnishing himself with thoughts and elegances out of the same general magazine of literature,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If by the liberty of the press were understood merely the liberty of discussing the propriety of public measures and political opinions,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Manners or etiquette ('accessibility, affability, politeness, refinement, propriety, courtesy, and ingratiating and captivating behavior') call for no large measure of moral determination… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat; and worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style, freshness, harmony,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
