Desire Quote by Fanny Fern

It is helpful to know the proper way to behave, so one can decide whether or not to be proper.

— Gail Carson Levine

Proper words in proper places make the true definiton of style.

— Jonathan Swift

“Proper words in proper places make the true definition of style.”

— Jonathan Swift

Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.

— Jonathan Swift

To be nobly wrong is more manly than to be meanly right.

— Thomas Paine

Nobody is ever 'fine'. Fine is a bullshit word that people use when they are fed up with being asked 'what's wrong?'

— Anonymous

You know, you don't have to look like everybody else to be acceptable and to feel acceptable.

— Fred Rogers

I actually have a thing about proper nouns. They clang on my ear in a weird way when I hear them dropped into movies.

— Josh Radnor

When I hear something going wrong, I insist on it being put right.

— Rupert Murdoch

We insist on near perfection in everyone except ourselves. But if our course is questioned we become offended.

— Sterling W Sill

Before using a fine word, make a place for it.

— Joseph Joubert