“my mother used to say that nothing limited the human spirit like propriety.” — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
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
“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
“Losing maturity in one’s fiction for the sake of marvels and monsters can also mean losing propriety, and that’s not always a… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
Be aroused by poetry; structure yourself with propriety, refine yourself with music. — Confucius 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
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
The row of dolls watched her impassively from the bookshelf, their tea party propriety almost certainly offended. — Holly Black 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
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
The happy man . . . will be always or at least most often employed in doing and contemplating the things that… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If the people are governed by laws and punishment is used to maintain order, they will try to avoid the punishment but… — Confucius 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
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
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
I find it awfully difficult to determine if the habit of talking about oneself at length runs contrary to the basic rules… — Giacomo Leopardi 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
Everything we did was done in form and with propriety, and the result of our proceedings is the document [the Quebec Resolutions]… — Thomas D'Arcy McGee 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
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
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
The love of action is a principle of a much stronger and more doubtful nature. It often leads to anger, to ambition,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It is better then, to save the work while it is begun. You have done the labor; maintain it - keep it.… — Abraham Lincoln 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
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
“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
“He thinned his eyes into razor slits and took a step toward Constance Brandley. “Let us be clear, madam. ‘Company’ implies one… — Christi Caldwell Copy Share Image
“She sang, as requested. There was much about love in the ballad: faithful love that refused to abandon its object; love that… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
This indigested vomit of the Sea,Fell to the Dutch by Just Propriety. — Andrew Marvell Copy Share Image
Propriety is the least of all laws, and the most observed. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Success is not worth rejoicing over, failure is not worth grieving over. — Luo Guanzhong Copy Share Image
“...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
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