“...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.” — Jane Austen 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
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
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
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
Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established — Confucius Copy Share Image
“Repression is a seamless garment; a society which is authoritarian in its social and sexual codes, which crushes its women beneath the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Propriety and single interest divides the people of a land and the whole world into parties and is the cause of all… — Gerrard Winstanley Copy Share Image
No man can well doubt the propriety of placing a president of the United States under the most solemn obligations to preserve,… — Joseph Story 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
Oh, propriety," says Mrs Benjamin. "We're always so concerned with propriety. Even in total madness, we still stick to our hierarchies and… — Robert Jackson Bennett 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 propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors. — F. H. Bradley Copy Share Image
Propriety is the least of all laws, and the most observed. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld 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
“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
I can only answer that I tried to tell the truth and, if not be objective, at least be fair; history is… — Randy Shilts Copy Share Image
Yes, yes, children must early be made to practise piety, godliness, and propriety; a person of good breeding is one into whom… — Max Stirner 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
Architecture depends on Order, Arrangement, Eurythmy, Symmetry , Propriety , and Economy. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
“Conduct! Is conduct everything? One may conduct oneself excellently, and yet break one's heart.” — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Let a man be stimulated by poetry, established by the rules of propriety, and perfected by music. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is graceful in a man to think and to speak with propriety, to act with deliberation, and in every occurrence of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
