Quotes About Propriety

There are some things you don't ask a man. Not if you respect him. He's entitled to stake his claim to what he considers private to himself alone.

There is no virtue in concealment. When the earth is rendered chaos, regulations of speech and propriety are rendered impotent, just as city may become desolate, and street, battle ground, and flesh may become fire.

All these years you drone on about benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, then you go and sell your own daughter.

Certainly a liberal education does manifest itself in a courtesy, propriety, and polish of word and action, which is beautiful in itself, and acceptable to others; but it does much more.

Sir,"she said,"you are no gentleman!" An apt observation,"he answered airily."And, you, Miss, are no lady.

Oratory is good only if it has the qualities of fitness for the occasion, propriety of style, and originality of treatment, while in the case of letters there is no such need whatsoever.

Good taste consists first upon fitness.

Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly

You dont like to see hookers going down on players like that.

Some things it is not decent to write of the dead, or prudent to write of the living.

No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.

First rule of cleavage: it's not how low you go, but where and when you show.

You may be a princess or the richest woman in the world, but you cannot be more than a lady.

Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.

Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the father's curse, mother's moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks.

An English gentleman is someone who knows exactly when to stop being one.

Good manners open the closed doors; bad manners close the open doors!

The city fathers discredited themselves with their silly exercise in extreme social rectitude.

How unladylike of you to mention such a thing.

He certainly seemed to have all the qualities of a gentleman, but the interesting kind who knows exactly when to stop behaving like one.

Here was another peculiar Trump attribute: an inability to see his actions the way most others saw them. Or to fully appreciate how people expected him to behave. The notion of the presidency as an institutional and political concept, with an emphasis on ritual and propriety and semiotic messaging—statesmanship—was quite beyond him.

Manners,[...] are severely underappreciated in my opinion". "Oh?" "Where practiced well, they remove the probability that someone in my position will be forced to go through the effort of killing someone in yours. Believe that on occasion that much death can become tedious.

PHILINTE: Il est bien des endroits, où la pleine franchise Deviendrait ridicule, et serait peu permise; Et, parfois, n'en déplaise à votre austère honneur, Il est bon de cacher ce qu'on a dans le cÅ"ur. Serait-il à propos, et de la bienséance, De dire à mille gens tout ce que d'eux, on pense? Et quand on a quelqu'un qu'on hait, ou qui déplaît, Lui doit-on déclarer la chose comme elle est? ALCESTE: Ouy..

Have you any right