Propriety Quotes
99 quotes by 79 authors
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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
— Jane Austen
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I feel a real need to observe a level of propriety in what I'm handing out. Instead of me just venting or spilling my guts,…
— Eric Clapton
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For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and…
— Frederick Douglass
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Straight-forwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness.
— Confucius
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Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style, freshness, harmony, perfection, imagination, purity,…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If the public safety be provided, liberty and propriety secured, justice administered, virtue encouraged, vice suppressed, and the true interest of the nation advanced, the…
— Algernon Sidney
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[To] explain the phenomena of the mineral kingdom ... systems are usually reduced to two classes, according as they refer to the origin of terrestrial…
— John Playfair
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The propriety of a law, in a constitutional light, must always be determined by the nature of the powers upon which it is founded.
— Alexander Hamilton
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On Sept 15th [1852] Mr Goulburn, Chancellor of the Exchequer, asked my opinion on the utility of Mr Babbage's calculating machine, and the propriety of…
— George Biddell Airy
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Nothing has so exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves. Those who…
— Samuel Johnson
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Constitutions are not designed for metaphysical or logical subtleties, for niceties of expression, for critical propriety, for elaborate shades of meaning, or for the exercise…
— Joseph Story
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Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a…
— Emma Goldman
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If there are such things as political axioms, the propriety of the judicial power of a government being co-extensive with its legislative, may be ranked…
— Alexander Hamilton
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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…
— George Mason
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If by the liberty of the press were understood merely the liberty of discussing the propriety of public measures and political opinions, let us have…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Hitherto my observations have only aimed at a vindication of the provision in question, on the ground of theoretic propriety . . . . But…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The same rule that teaches the propriety of a partition between the various branches of power, teaches us likewise that this partition ought to be…
— Alexander Hamilton
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In a certain sense, and to a certain extent, he [the president] is the representative of the people. He is elected by them, as well…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Money is, with propriety, considered as the vital principle of the body politic; as that which sustains its life and motion, and enables it to…
— Alexander Hamilton
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