We are disgusted by gossip; yet it is of importance to keep the angels in their proprieties. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Success is not worth rejoicing over, failure is not worth grieving over. — Luo Guanzhong Copy Share Image
Anyone must be mainly ignorant or thoughtless, who is surprised at everything he sees; or wonderfully conceited who expects everything to conform… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
In many parts of the world-including Polynesia, north Africa & the Middle East-public dancing that focused on a physically linked couple would… — Gerald Jonas Copy Share Image
IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest,… — Joseph Lancaster 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
That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Whamming someone smaller than oneself in order to teach that person civilized behavior is not within Miss Manners' concept of propriety, much… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
One moment it's a cathedral, at another time there is no words to describe it when it ceases, for short periods of… — John Diefenbaker Copy Share Image
But although we have noticed the ark as being the first ship, we cannot with propriety place it in the front of… — R. M. Ballantyne Copy Share Image
In most old communities there is a common sense even in sensuality. Vice itself gets gradually digested into a system, is amenable… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Constitutions are not designed for metaphysical or logical subtleties, for niceties of expression, for critical propriety, for elaborate shades of meaning, or… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation.… — James Madison 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
The camel is an ugly animal, seen from above. Its shoulders slope formless like a sack, its silly little ears and fluff… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of propriety––Women and Men, Christians and Jews, Muslims and… — Aberjhani 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 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
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
“The main hallway of the Sternwood place was two stories high. Over the entrance doors, which would have let in a troop… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Permit me then to recommend from the sincerity of my heart, ready at all times to bleed in my country's cause, a… — Nathanael Greene Copy Share Image
Education to independence demands that young people should be accustomed early to consult their own sense of propriety and their own reason.… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes; it suggests, further, a full range of experience…it suggests a spectrum upon which… — Carolyn Heilbrun 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
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
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
