Quotes About Propriety

Etiquette, or dog in the original Coptic, means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

Sam crossed to the other set of stairs and moved up them quickly. As it wasn't proper for men to see women walking up the stairs, where they might accidentally catch the view of her ankle or, heaven forbid, her calf, many of Charleston's older homes were built with two sets of stairs.

He must not laugh at his own wheeze. A snuff box has no right to sneeze.

Neither nations nor children should be conceived in public.

I entirely concur in the propriety of restoring to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is a legitimate constitution. And, if that be not the guide in expounding it, there can be no security for consistent and stable government.

To boast loudly in public of one's own country seemed to him indecent – like enlarging on the physical perfections of one's own wife in a smoking room.

He chews the gum which I believe is not done in good circles.

And a lot of fandangle it usually is," said Mrs. Burch. "Forms to fill in, and a lot of impertinent questions as shouldn't be asked of any decent body.

My past business dealings, my personal life, who I'm dating, the details of my divorce, other business matters that I've had - all that should be completely off-limits.

I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.

I'm a logical woman and won't resort to washing dirty linen in public.

You don't talk about celebrities in the Hamptons, duh!

I know you aren't supposed to speak ill of the dead.

No, my lord. I merely thought it unwise for you to visit the Duke of Massingale and request his granddaughter's hand in marriage while intoxicated." Reeves replaced the stopper on the decanter and carried it back to the sideboard. "His Lordship would not appreciate such a display.

It well becomes a young man to be modest.

My business was great, and in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy.

To eat off another man's plate. [To live an another's expense.]

Men don't like nobility in woman. Not any men. I suppose it is because the men like to have the copyrights on nobility -- if there is going to be anything like that in a relationship.

One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.

The man who thrusts his manners upon me does as if he were to insist on introducing me to his cabinet of curiosities, when I wished to see himself.

It really bothers me when I see people doing my mother in drag. I mean, just imagine if you saw people doing that with your mother.

Do not run a campaign that would embarrass your mother.

If a man is not good, what has he to do with the rules of propriety? If he is not good, what has he to do with music?

Sleep not when others speak, sit not when others stand, speak not when you should hold your peace, walk not when others stop.