Quotes About Propriety

I could spank Constantine and skin him alive afterwards, that I could, she exclaimed bitterly. Oh, Susan, I'm surprised at you, said the doctor, pulling a long face. Have you no regard for the proprieties? Skin him alive by all means but omit the spanking.

Why didn't you tell her it was no business of hers?" said Eben angrily. "Old Flora Jane had better mind her own business.

to feel much for others and little for ourselves, that to restrain our selfish, and to indulge our benevolent affections, constitutes the perfection of human nature; and can alone produce among mankind that harmony of sentiments and passions in which consists their whole grace and propriety.

The impulse to escape notice is not about complacent isolation or senseless conformity, but about maintaining identity, propriety, autonomy, and voice. It is not about retreating from the digital world but about finding some genuine alternative to a life of perpetual display.

I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense, and mental hygiene.

Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.

She asked, what would he do if a lady happened to insist? Turner replied, "Madam, do you think that would be a lady?

Modesty means that you insist that men delight in you at the right time and in the right place and in the right way and we dictate what that means …

During the first weekend Prince Charles showed Diana around Highgrove, the 353-acre Gloucestershire home he had bought in July--the same month he had started to woo her. As he took her on a guided tour of the eight-bedroomed mansion, the Prince asked her to organize the interior decoration. He liked her taste while she felt that it was a "most improper" suggestion as they were not even engaged.

The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.

I'm sorry to disturb you, madam,' said Nurse, 'but I thought I'd better speak to you. It's about Miss Delia's knickers' she continued, after a glance at the Vicar and a rapid decision that his cloth protected him. 'She really hasn't a pair fit to wear...

Look not at what is contrary to propriety; listen not to what is contrary to propriety; speak not what is contrary to propriety; make no movement which is contrary to propriety.

There should be respect and privacy for any dead person.

It's not for me to give anybody advice about their private life.

No one has the right to dirty someone's personal space in any which way.

I was brought up not to brag. I've always disliked people who do.

There are roles I have said no to, but for different reasons. And, I never talk about those because I feel it's disrespectful to say, 'Oh, I said no to this project or that other project.' I'd rather talk about the ones that I said yes to and the reasons why.

I'm not exposing anything thats private - that's one thing I won't do.

It is inappropriate to discuss matters of business, pleasure or current events in the temple.

We are English, and I expect you to behave as such. No more crying.

here, to tempt you into a kiss. I've become a shameless hussy. Aunt Ardith would have disowned me." "Aunt Ardith sounds like a pain in the—" "She was wonderful," Mary said firmly. "It's just that she was very old-fashioned and had strict notions of what was proper and what

When it comes to letting another man lay his hands on you, I have no honor," he said bluntly. She

That is important," said Mma Makutsi from behind her desk. "One does not want a lady who talks too much.

Here's a bit of advice... When a woman invites you into her home... and you don't seduce her... don't seduce another woman, darling, certainly not under the same roof. It's bad manners - ungallant to say the least,