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
The important consequences to the American States from this Declaration of Independence, considered as the ground and foundation of a future government,… — John Hancock 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
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
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
It is the effect of scarcity; one’s rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Each speech having its own character, the poetry it engenders will be peculiar to that speech also in its own intrinsic form.… — William Carlos Williams 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
Avant-garde art jousts with propriety, but takes care never to unseat it. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
If there are such things as political axioms, the propriety of the judicial power of a government being co-extensive with its legislative,… — Alexander Hamilton 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
“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
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 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
The superior man, extensively studying all learning, and keeping himself under the restraint of the rules of propriety, may thus likewise not… — Confucius 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
“The arrows of death fly unseen at noon-day; the sharpest sight cannot discern them.” — Jonathan Edwards 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
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
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
Because like all whores you value propriety. You are creature of capitalism, the ethics of which are so totally corrupt and hypocritical… — Anonymous 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
Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The way in which modern German poetry follows theories reminds me of pupils who, scolded by their teacher for their insubordination, justify… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
