Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The constitutionality and propriety of the Federal Government assuming to enter into a novel and vast field of legislation, namely, that of… — Franklin Pierce Copy Share Image
How often should a woman be pregnant? Continually, or hardly ever? Or must there be a certain number of pregnancy anniversaries established… — Lord Chesterfield 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
“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
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
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
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
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
Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Look not at what is contrary to propriety; listen not to what is contrary to propriety; speak not what is contrary to… — Confucius 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
It has been so written, for the most part, that the times it describes are with remarkable propriety called dark ages. They… — Henry David Thoreau 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
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
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
It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of… — John Buchanan Robinson 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
Success is not worth rejoicing over, failure is not worth grieving over. — Luo Guanzhong Copy Share Image
Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
I've got confidence that most people in America still have a decent sense of manners, propriety, morality. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Masonry, according to the general acceptation of the term, is an art founded on the principles of geometry, and devoted to the… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
