Quotes About Propriety

Right is not always right. If you are appropriate, then you are always right.

Be aroused by poetry; structure yourself with propriety, refine yourself with music.

Let a man be stimulated by poetry, established by the rules of propriety, and perfected by music.

Any one may mouth out a passage with theatrical cadence or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts. But to write or speak with propriety and simplicity is a more difficult task.

In the educated class even social life is a series of aptitude tests; we all must perpetually perform in accordance with the shifting norms of propriety, ever advancing signals of cultivation.

It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste.

Good manners are very important, particularly in the morning.

The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Necessity is the law of all who are not self-possessed.

Good manners are a part of good morals.

Good taste rejects excessive nicety.

Manners and politeness will never become old-fashioned.

What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming.

Honor has to say "please" and "thank you." Manners are really important.

The trouble with dead people today is they have no sense of decorum

Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.

He is a gentleman, and I am a gentleman's daughter. So far we are equal.

It must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentleman before the gentleman is first known to have dreamt of her.

Que un hombre soltero de su clase tuviera una amante se podía tolerar, pero las mujeres debían regirse por unas normas mucho más severas.

London is locked in a sort of dance of propriety, and it seems to me that it has led to desperation among certain elements of our society.

If something is too risque, don't watch it.

I don't want to talk about the specifics of other people's performances compared with my own. I'd never do that.

The condition of my personal workspace is my own business, as I see it.

To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.

I looked at her. In that getup, to me she was a treat; to Wolfe, in his own house, she would have been an impudence. "Because there's no chair on this floor big enough for him. I'll wait outside.