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Propriety Quotes
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I find it awfully difficult to determine if the habit of talking about oneself at length runs contrary to the basic rules of propriety, or if instead the man exempt from this vice is rare (Propriety Quotes)
Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established (Propriety Quotes)
It has been so written, for the most part, that the times it describes are with remarkable propriety called dark ages. They are dark, as one has observed, because we are so in the dark about them (Propriety Quotes)
Propriety is that perfection of style which comes when a work is authoritatively constructed on approved principles. It arises from prescription, from usage, or from nature (Propriety Quotes)
There will be no propriety in the spectacle of an elegant interior approached by a low mean entrance (Propriety Quotes)
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 judgment? (Propriety Quotes)
Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman; dignity is proper to noblemen; and majesty to kings (Propriety Quotes)
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, I’ve got to consider how it’s going to affect people. How it’s going to affect me, as well. Because it’s like a cycle (Propriety Quotes)
The propriety of a law, in a constitutional light, must always be determined by the nature of the powers upon which it is founded (Propriety Quotes)
She had wandered so far from the rules of propriety that she was making up new ones just to keep from sinking into the abyss (Propriety Quotes)
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 perform its most essential functions (Propriety Quotes)
A gentleman considers justice to be essential in everything. He practices it according to the principles of propriety. He brings it forth in modesty and faithfully completes it. This is indeed a gentleman (Propriety Quotes)
If a man has no humaneness what can his propriety be like? If a man has no humaneness what can his happiness be like? (Propriety Quotes)