Quotes About Propriety

While families had incentives to curtail women's work outside the home, employers had countervailing incentives to try to tap this large potential source of workers. Early New England mill owners, for example, tried to reassure parents of the safety and propriety of letting their daughters work in their businesses by having all-female workforces, often overseen by older women who in effect were chaperons, especially when the young women lived away from home.

No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.

I have a soft spot in my heart for rogues," she continued. "They are so much more honest in their approach to life than the usual paragons of propriety. Those sober, proper gentlemen more often than not harbor cold hearts and dark secrets.

He's a closet gentleman

Modern Christians should not mistake our post-Victorian sense of propriety for moral purity.

Being a blueblood isn't just knowing the rules. It's knowing the precisely correct thing to do in every situation, then doing it with unshakable entitlement.

Propriety of manners and consideration for others are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.

Propriety and single interest divides the people of a land and the whole world into parties and is the cause of all wars and bloodshed and contention everywhere

Now, now. Southern ladies don't French-kiss and tell.

Besides, as Ma had told her innumerable times, a lady should never indicate in mixed company that she had limbs beneath her skirt.

You can't give your songs to just anybody.

I dress in a sophisticated and classy way - I always dress in a way I know my mother wouldn't be embarrassed to see.

It seems very clear to me that we, in the West, cannot afford to continue assuming propriety over the world's resources in a careless, greedy way without paying for it - not only with the lives of our loved ones, but also with our souls.

A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned.

For me, you have to have some kind of modesty.

women had to be controlled and kept from going wild because of their inherent susceptibility to lust; thus men had to exercise aidos, "shame," and sophrosyne, "soundness of mind," to keep women from transgressing the bounds of propriety.

Managers could be tidy-minded simply because tidiness seemed like the right and proper way to be.

They began to pilfer in earnest, and it became not only their right but their obligation.

I'm concealing a lot of things. That's what a lady does.

How many sandwiches did you eat at some thing like this? There were nearly twenty more on the trays. Did you leave some for propriety sake? She hadn't touched them. Wait, were they decorative?

At home we're the hosts, and I never liked the idea of being embarrased in front of our friends.

Child, use your brain. Think on your feet. Being polite and reserved is how we were raised, but we learned the hard way that the rest of the world isn't that way. I've perceived from conversation that you comprehend such things, like that swordplay with whatsit... that Titmouse, or whatever his name was. In other words, child, propriety has its place, but don't let your guard down. In real life, you never know who the plagers of Intrigue really are, or what they stand for.

Murder before impropriety! ... It never fails to shock me--what a properly brought-up Englishwoman will condone to ensure her blessed propriety.

This is no time to act like a gentleman. I am a cad and shall react like one.