Propriety Quotes

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I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety. — Jane Austen
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
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
Straight-forwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness. — Confucius
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
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
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
[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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Hitherto my observations have only aimed at a vindication of the provision in question, on the ground of theoretic propriety . . . . But… — Alexander Hamilton
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
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
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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