Quotes About Propriety

Don't grunt; it is not pleasing in a young woman.

am inhibited in expressing myself by the presence of a lady; therefore I cannot adequately discuss your ancestry, personal habits, morals, and destination.

There are few things that so touch us with instinctive revulsion as a breach of decorum.

Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.

Americans will respect your beliefs if you just keep them private.

the strange propriety that puts the Japanese among the earth's most civilized degenerates

Lots of things are true. Doesn't mean you can go round saying them

Murder is not a suitable topic of conversation for a young lady.

Show me you have one iota of self-restraint." "I will," I said quickly. "Stay away from her." "Okay." "Keep your hands off her." "I'll try." He scowled at me. "I will," I said. He wiggled his fingers at me. "And it might help public relations with Lori's pop if you put on a shirt and quit walking around here like sex on a stick.

I'm not saying you shouldn't have made out with Everett. I'm saying you shouldn't have done it in his mother's scrapbooking room. Location, location, location. You might have disorganized her supplies. Some people are very particular about their chipboard getting mixed up with their cardstock.

Miss Hepplewhite looked pained. "Miss Peck," she said at last, "a young lady should never, ever, under any circumstances whatsoever, run. Should you find yourself in a situation where you are at risk, it is always preferable to faint.

If you don't mind a word of advice, one never asks a lady to set her own price. If you have to ask, the answer will always be more than you can afford.

Do not laugh loudly and obnoxiously.

keep your language free of obscenities. Do not dip into the gutter in search of cheap laughs.

I don't want to worry about maintaining an air of decorum that's not natural to me.

Advertising should always be in good taste without a question.

It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty.

My grandmother used to teach me that it's bad manners to invite yourself to somebody's house.

I'm not sure what I'd do with you if you were respectable.

A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.

A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.

Maybe this was what the media was calling "desperate euphoria"—the we're-all-doomed-but-anything-can-happen feeling that had begun to peak around the time Wun went public. The end of the world, plus Martians: given that, what was impossible? What was even unlikely? And where did that leave the standard arguments in favor of propriety, patience, virtue, and not rocking the boat?

only a complete woolhead looked at a woman while with another.

Some things just shouldn't be talked about, and I don't care if you will be letting that fool gleeman tell any kind of tale he wants. It isn't right or decent." "I never saw or heard or smelled anything that couldn't be talked about," Tam said