Quotes About Propriety

The older a person grows, Harriet, the more important it is that their manners should not be bad,—the more glaring and disgusting any loudness, or coarseness, or awkwardness becomes. What is passable in youth is detestable in later age.

The pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety. -Sense and Sensibility

For shame, Emma! Do not mimic her. You divert me against my conscience.

There was a kind of cold-hearted selfishness on both sides, which mutually attracted them; and they sympathized with each other in an insipid propriety of demeanour, and a general want of understanding.

do not cough for my own amusement

Silakan, pegang tangan saya. Betul, begitu. Rasanya tidak enak jika tidak ada perempuan yang menggamit tangan saya.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.

One consolation however remained for them, to which the exigence of the moment gave more than usual propriety; it was that of running with all possible speed down the steep side of the hill which led immediately to their garden gate.

The nonsense and folly of people's stepping out of their rank and trying to appear above themselves, makes me think it right to give you a hint

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight.

Sexual behavior was also generally considered off limits.

It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals

No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime".

Outside the family circle, papa, I'm glad to say, is entirely unknown. I think that is quite as it should be. The home seems to me to be the proper sphere for the man.

How does he look, Jeeves? Sir? What does Mr Bassington-Bassington look like? It is hardly my place, sir, to criticize the facial peculiarities of your friends.

have not earned the right to call him a more casual name.

Without propriety of scale, and the acceptance of limits which that implies, there can be no form – and here we reunite science and art.

Being, however, nothing but a woman, condemned to patience, propriety, and petticoats for life, I must respect the house-keeper's opinions, and try to compose myself in some feeble and feminine way.

O fie, miss, you must not kiss and tell.

You are trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen, and I think it quite ungentlemanly.

Njëshi nuk është i barabartë me një, kur na duhet të sillemi në një mënyrë të caktuar.

To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?

Thare iz this mutch kan be sed in favour ov good-breeding, it iz the only thing that kan make a phool endurable.