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
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
There's this line between propriety and how we really speak and how we really think. And I'm just trying to have fun… — Paul Beatty 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
Genius disregards the boundaries of propriety. Genius is permitted to shout if shouting is productive. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
I am too inexperienced and ignorant to conduct myself with propriety in this town, where every thing is new to me, and… — Fanny Burney 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
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
There will be natural propriety in using an eastern light for bedrooms and libraries, a western light in winter for baths and… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
In reality the world is made of thousands of groups of about five hundred people, all of whom will spend their lives… — Neil Gaiman 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
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
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
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
Asking women to respect themselves in order to ‘earn’ the right to be treated like a human being is total horseshit. But… — Clementine Ford 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
Those expressions are omitted which can not with propriety be read aloud in the family. — Thomas Bowdler Copy Share Image
The feeling of commiseration is the beginning of humanity; the feeling of shame and dislike is the beginning of righteousness; the feeling… — Mencius 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 happy man . . . will be always or at least most often employed in doing and contemplating the things that… — Aristotle 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
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
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
“If a man has been your teacher for a day, you should treat him as your father for the rest of his… — Wu Cheng'en Copy Share Image
