The propriety of thoughts and words, which are the hidden beauties of a play, are but confusedly judged in the vehemence of… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Those expressions are omitted which can not with propriety be read aloud in the family. — Thomas Bowdler Copy Share Image
It is said that the propriety even of old Cato often yielded to the exciting influence of the grape. — Horace Copy Share Image
The row of dolls watched her impassively from the bookshelf, their tea party propriety almost certainly offended. — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Be aroused by poetry; structure yourself with propriety, refine yourself with 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 the effect of scarcity; one’s rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper. — Mohsin Hamid 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
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
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
I feel a real need to observe a level of propriety in what I'm handing out. Instead of me just venting or… — Eric Clapton 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
The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of… — Queen Victoria 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
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
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
[To] explain the phenomena of the mineral kingdom ... systems are usually reduced to two classes, according as they refer to the… — John Playfair 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
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
In San Francisco, vulgarity, "bad taste," ostentation are regarded as a kind of alien blight, an invasion or encroachment from outside. In… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Poesy is a beauteous damsel, chaste, honourable, discreet, witty, retired, and who keeps herself within the limits of propriety. She is a… — Miguel de Cervantes 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
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
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
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
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
Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Genius disregards the boundaries of propriety. Genius is permitted to shout if shouting is productive. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“The arrows of death fly unseen at noon-day; the sharpest sight cannot discern them.” — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established — Confucius 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
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
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
“She had learned propriety, which was the same as saying she had learned to trust only herself.” — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
Those expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in the family. — Thomas Bowdler Copy Share Image
Let a man be stimulated by poetry, established by the rules of propriety, and perfected by music. — Confucius 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
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
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
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