Quotes About Propriety

I deal with other people's information. I don't vomit my own personal life into the public sphere.

Emancipation, to be of any value to the slave, must be the free, voluntary act of the master, performed from a conviction of its propriety.

what I believe true dignity consists, that is to say, honesty, propriety of conduct, and honest independence.

An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of propriety––Women and Men, Christians and Jews, Muslims and Buddhists, white, black, red, brown. An outrageous instinct to love and be loved executed your brain every hour on the hour.

Regarding vengeance and arch-enemies, one must not only be timely but prideful, and pride exacts propriety.

Jde o to být oble?en tak, abychom byli co nejmén? nápadní. ?ervený frak je v tane?ním sále nápadný. Tedy je ?ervený frak v tane?ním sále nemoderní. Cylindr na led? je nápadný. Proto je na led? nemoderní. Všecko, co je nápadné, platí v dobré spole?nosti za hrubé a nep?ípustné.

Observe decorum, and it will open a path to morality.

Don't behave in a funny manner. We must have Calcutta in India.

Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.

Chanakya says that a guest is important only if his stay is short. If without hesitation or shamelessly he extends his stay, then it is graceless, as a prostitute leaves a poor man, the subjects leave a defeated king and birds leave a dead tree, similarly, a guest must quickly leave after having and praising the food, offered to him.

I don't do any vulgar movements.

It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially.

One should not promote lyrics that are vulgar.

I'm very comfortable in my skin. Yet, I won't do anything that's indecent, cheap or vulgar.

Vulgarity, in my mind, is not cool.

There is a fine line between sensuousness and vulgarity. I will not cross that line.

You have to mind your Ps and Qs a little bit.

I used to say I never talk about my successor, neither about my predecessor.

The charge was left entirely to himself from midnight until the rising of the sun; and if all the shepherds in the Forest had been there to have assisted him, they could not have effected it with greater propriety.

I believe it is conceded that, notwithstanding the fabled blue laws of New England, a man may, without impropriety, kiss his wife on Sunday and possibly, if he have a chance, some other sweet-faced woman.

brings domesticity and common sense, and that propriety which every man loves, directly into this hurly-burly, and makes every bully ashamed.

here.Doing and saying the right thing are not sufficient. Doing the right thing in the right way and with the person's comfort in mind is critical.

The correct British peer would no more dream of using his own title than he would of using his own umbrella, although he carries both and is proud of their age.

Despite all her diligent efforts to remake herself into a model of propriety, when it come to falling in love she'd reverted to from and fallen in love with a man who was a renegade, a black sheep, a daring, cynical, tough social outcast who in some ways reminded her of the boys she'd known on the Chicago streets.