If you cannot conduct yourself with propriety, give place to those who can. — Horace Copy Share Image
Avant-garde art jousts with propriety, but takes care never to unseat it. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation. — Lawana Blackwell Copy Share Image
A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Those expressions are omitted which can not with propriety be read aloud in the family. — Thomas Bowdler Copy Share Image
Generosity, pleasing address, courage and propriety of conduct are not acquired, but are inbred qualities. — Chanakya 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
Architecture depends on Order, Arrangement, Eurythmy, Symmetry , Propriety , and Economy. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“Conduct! Is conduct everything? One may conduct oneself excellently, and yet break one's heart.” — Anthony Trollope 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
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 [President's] Nomination, of Course, brings the Subject fully under the Consideration of the Senate; who have then a Right to decide… — George Mason Copy Share Image
I did documentary film for a long time, and I spent a lot of time behind the camera, fervently wishing that the… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
The censor is always quick to justify his function in terms that are protective of society. But the First Amendment, written in… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
By going on the defensive. [...] libertarians are, inadvertently, conceding that speech should be policed for propriety, and that those who violate… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
Rhetoric is useful because truth and justice are in their nature stronger than their opposites; so that if decisions be made, not… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“If I always behave with propriety, no matter what it costs me to suppress my own desires, then that is the measure… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
[To] explain the phenomena of the mineral kingdom ... systems are usually reduced to two classes, according as they refer to the… — John Playfair Copy Share Image
Propriety of thought and propriety of diction are commonly found together. Obscurity and affectation are the two greatest faults of style. Obscurity… — Thomas B. Macaulay 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
Poesy is a beauteous damsel, chaste, honourable, discreet, witty, retired, and who keeps herself within the limits of propriety. She is a… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
In San Francisco, vulgarity, "bad taste," ostentation are regarded as a kind of alien blight, an invasion or encroachment from outside. In… — Pauline Kael 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
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
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 am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety. — Jane Austen 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
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 propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors. — F. H. Bradley Copy Share Image
There are as many kinds of modesty as there are races. To the English woman it is a duty; to the French… — Hippolyte Taine 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
Eating meat and drinking liquor are demonic vices. Those indulging in drink lose all sense of propriety, have no compassion or love… — Anonymous 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 can be assured that I need no one's guidance in anything concerning propriety. — Marie Antoinette 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
That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
If a man has no humaneness what can his propriety be like? If a man has no humaneness what can his happiness… — Confucius Copy Share Image
![“The [President's] Nomination, of Course, brings the Subject fully under the Consideration of the Senate; who have then a Right to decide upon its Propriety or Impropriety.” quote by George Mason](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cd0/george-mason-8435_consideration_the-president-s-nomination-of-course-bri_3180018.jpg)
![“By going on the defensive. [...] libertarians are, inadvertently, conceding that speech should be policed for propriety, and that those who violate standards set by the PC set are somehow defective on those grounds alone and deserve to be purged from "polite" company.” quote by Ilana Mercer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/68d/ilana-mercer-6995_business_by-going-on-the-defensive-libertarians-a_768647.jpg)
![“[To] explain the phenomena of the mineral kingdom ... systems are usually reduced to two classes, according as they refer to the origin of terrestrial bodies to FIRE or to WATER; and ... their followers have of late been distinguished by the fanciful names of Vulcanists and Neptunists. To the…” quote by John Playfair](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/081/john-playfair-46821_agency_to-explain-the-phenomena-of-the-mineral_707668.jpg)
