Quotes About Propriety

By the standards of magical society they'd fallen at the first hurdle: they hadn't had the basic good sense to keep their shit to themselves.

To praise oneself is considered improper, immodest; to praise one's own sect, one's own philosophy, is considered the highest duty.

His only thought now was the question in what way he could best, with most propriety and comfort for himself, and consequently, with most justice, shake off the mud with which she had splattered him in her fall, and then proceed along his path of active, honourable, and useful existence.

Le tact dans l'audace, c'est de savoir jusqu'où on peut aller trop loin.

My passions, when roused, are intense, and, so long as I am activated by them, nothing equals my impetuosity. I no longer know moderation, respect, fear, propriety; I am cynical, brazen, violent, fearless; no sense of shame deters me, no danger alarms me. Except for the object of my passion, the whole world is as nothing to me; but this only lasts for a moment, and the next I am plunged into utter dejection.

La patronne était là, j'ai dû la baiser, mais c'était bien par politesse.

Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.

When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.

Thus the ideal marriage at the end of a Jane Austen novel is not simply a conventional happy ending . . . It offers itself as an emblem of the ideal union of property and propriety -- a model to be emulated, a paradigm for a more general combination of the two on which the future of her society depends.

Claire was de rigeuer even in disgrace.

In the arts they call it plagiarism, in business they call it competition.

Avant-garde art jousts with propriety, but takes care never to unseat it.

Did I behave myself tonight, Ross?' she asked. 'Did I behave as Mrs Poldark should behave?' 'You misbehaved monstrously,' he said, 'and were a triumph.

The wise person is the one who knows all things in compliance with what is fitting.

The row of dolls watched her impassively from the bookshelf, their tea party propriety almost certainly offended.

Every man also has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.

A lady is one who never shows her underwear unintentionally.

Propriety is that perfection of style which comes when a work is authoritatively constructed on approved principles. It arises from prescription, from usage, or from nature.

Do not take the advantage of all the little luxuries a house of a stranger may offer you.

I try to behave myself, and I succeed.

The goat's business is none of the sheep's concern.

I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine.

Never joke at funerals, or during business transactions.

You don't want to ask after the health of anyone, if you're a funeral director. They think maybe you're scouting for business.