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Quotes About Proper

It may not be proper for me, perhaps, to let my feelings carry me further am therefore resigned to stop here, if sir, you think my particular reasons following too free, or will give offense to the House, which I would be sorry to be thought capable of intending.
~ Christopher Gadsden
Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place.
~ Nicolaus Copernicus
Novels, since the birth of the genre, have been full of rejected, seduced, and abandoned maidens, whose proper fate is to die...
~ Margaret Drabble
...education has but one honorable purpose, one alone, everything else is a waste of time......that is to train the student to be a proper handler of power.
~ John Henrik Clarke
He cannot endure Rachel, because he knows she has a proper appreciation of him.
~ Anne Bronte
It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior. So said the teachers of our childhood; and so say we to the children of the present day. All very judicious and proper, no doubt; but are such assertions supported by actual experience?
~ Anne Bronte
It is foolish to which for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves, or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior. So said the teachers of our childhood; and so say we to the children of the present day, all very judicious and proper, no doubt; but such assertions supported by actual experience?
~ Anne Bronte
Yes, I was surprised about her myself. I had always considered her to be proper enough, if somewhat light-headed. It shows how one can be deceived." "Because she was killed?" Caroline said with a lift of amazement in her voice. "Precisely.
~ Anne Perry
He let his tread announce him as he went up the stairs. It seemed very much the proper thing to do in this house, to let Marius know that, he was coming, and not to be accused of boldness and stealth.
~ Anne Rice
Bring mademoiselle a chair. She looks weary. No! she said. I have no interest in conversing with you, Monsieur le Comte. I simply need my mother. And I need to prove myself a proper host, he returned. You've managed to overcome your more proper urges so far, she said pointedly. Why change now?
~ Anne Stuart
The seven Ps: Proper Planning and Preparation Prevent Piss-Poor Performance
~ John Lanchester
But we are living in a day when even the most "orthodox" seem afraid to admit the proper Godhood of God. They say that to press the sovereignty of God excludes human responsibility; whereas human responsibility is based upon divine sovereignty, and is the product of it.
~ Arthur W. Pink
God's glory is not dependent on the manifestation of any one attribute, but on the manifestation of each in its proper time and place, and in full harmony with the others.
~ Arthur W. Pink
It's time to go and face them. To prepare them, as we say in the trade, a proper reception. Welcome to my island, assholes.
~ Austin Grossman
I didn't use a voice change to do Bilbo. I have a distinctive voice anyway. I did an attitude change, making Bilbo kind of fussy - fussy and proper - then gradually dropped the fussiness and properness as the madness of battle really affects him.
~ Orson Bean
The cottages erected by farmers or by landlords are now, one and all, fit and proper habitations for human beings; and I verifly believe it would be impossible throughout the length and breadth of Wiltshire to find a single bad cottage on any large estate, so well and so thoroughly have the landed proprietors done their work.
~ Richard Jefferies
The spiritual (i.e. the supersensory) has many degrees; thus, the term 'spiritual' is used both for the scale of degrees away from the physical towards the spirit, but also only for the spiritual proper.
~ Piet Mondrian
As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the correct time to order chocolate dishes: any month whose name contains the letter A, E, or U is the proper time for chocolate.
~ Sandra Boynton
He saw the cause of his unhappiness in the family--the family as a social institution, which does not permit the child to become an independent individual at the proper time.
~ August Strindberg
You can't improve sound by having only silence. The problem is to use each at the proper time.
~ Norton Juster
Come with uncle and hear all proper. Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones...you are invited!
~ Anthony Burgess
And here will apply an observation made before, that whatever is proper to each is naturally best and pleasantest to him: such then is to Man the life in accordance with pure Intellect (since this Principle is most truly Man), and if so, then it is also the happiest.
~ Aristotle
And he watched over me before I knew him, and before I learned sense or even distinguished between good and evil, and he protected me, and consoled me as a father would his son. Therefore, indeed, I cannot keep silent, nor would it be proper, so many favours and graces has the Lord deigned to bestow on me in the land of my captivity.
~ Sinclair B. Ferguson
The only names of objects which connote nothing are proper names; and these have, strictly speaking, no signification.
~ John Stuart Mill