Propriety Quotes
99 Propriety quotes by 77 unique authors
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The first monster that an audience has to be scared of is the filmmaker. They have to feel in the presence of someone not confined…
— Wes Craven
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I'm a gentleman, if nothing else. It's taken me years to become one, but finally I have a sense of propriety.
— Eric Stoltz
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It is the censor's business to make a judgment about the propriety of the content or message of the proposed expressive activity. The regulation here…
— Richard Posner
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Jewish nationalism means no more than recognition of the peoplehood of Israel, and of the propriety of that people's being a religio-cultural group in America,…
— Milton Steinberg
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Even in killing men, observe the rules of propriety.
— Confucius
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I believe the powers of observation in numbers of very young children to be quite wonderful for its closeness and accuracy. Indeed, I think that…
— Charles Dickens
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Oh, propriety," says Mrs Benjamin. "We're always so concerned with propriety. Even in total madness, we still stick to our hierarchies and chains of command.
— Robert Jackson Bennett
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Propriety is the least of all laws, and the most observed.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Ceremony forbids us to express by words things that are lawful and natural, and we obey it; reason forbids us to do things unlawful and…
— Michel de Montaigne
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A prig always finds a last refuge in responsibility.
— Jean Cocteau
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A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal delicacy, propriety, and…
— Jonathan Swift
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The responsibility of a minister is to step aside when there is a criminal investigation of the department. That protects the propriety of Parliament and…
— Jack Layton
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Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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I do not comprehend those rules of conduct that make us so content with self and so cold to those we love. I detest prudence,…
— Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse
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For proverbs are the pith, the proprieties, the proofs, the purities, the elegancies, as the commonest so the commendablest phrases of a language. To use…
— John Florio
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But although we have noticed the ark as being the first ship, we cannot with propriety place it in the front of the history of…
— R. M. Ballantyne
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Proportion and propriety are among the best secrets of domestic wisdom; and there is no surer test of integrity than a well-proportioned expenditure.
— Hannah More
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Eating meat and drinking liquor are demonic vices. Those indulging in drink lose all sense of propriety, have no compassion or love and become demons.
— Sathya Sai Baba
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There's this line between propriety and how we really speak and how we really think. And I'm just trying to have fun with that stuff.
— Paul Beatty
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Any woman may act the part of a coquette successfully who has the reputation without the scruples of modesty. If a woman passes the bounds…
— William Hazlitt
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Anyone must be mainly ignorant or thoughtless, who is surprised at everything he sees; or wonderfully conceited who expects everything to conform to his standard…
— William Hazlitt
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It is almost impossible to translate verbally and well at the same time; for the Latin (a most severe and compendious language) often expresses that…
— John Dryden
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I'm waiting for the day when my children cease to find my domestic propriety reassuring and actually find it annoying.
— Rachel Cusk
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I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they…
— Maria Mitchell
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Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man…
— Horatio Nelson
Who Wrote These Propriety Quotes
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