Quotes About Propriety

good manners are the moisturizer of life.

Lymond's behaviour, as always, went to the limits of polite usage and then hurtled off into space.

we have somehow assumed that the interests of speed, or some other function of athletic performance, somehow set aside the requirements of propriety and modesty. In the ancient world, athletes competed naked, and in the modern world, in some events, they might as well be.

Your private life is your private life and you keep it to yourself. You get more respect that way.

Life is all about manners. Nothing else matters.

If you rise in life, you have to behave in a certain way. You can go to a strip club if you're a beer-swilling sand shoveler, but if you're the Bishop of Boston, you shouldn't go.

He couldn't help approving that she hid herself from every scoundrel who wished to ogle her bosom. He was the only scoundrel allowed to ogle Diana Carrick.

Being human doesn't entitle us to grab what doesn't belong to us.

I was brought up with considerable discipline, and I was taught it wasn't proper to display certain very private emotions in public.

You can be assured that I need no one's guidance in anything concerning propriety.

I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.

I feel a real need to observe a level of propriety in what I'm handing out. Instead of me just venting or spilling my guts, I've got to consider how it's going to affect people. How it's going to affect me, as well. Because it's like a cycle.

I'm a gentleman, if nothing else. It's taken me years to become one, but finally I have a sense of propriety.

I do not mean that you could continue to do this with propriety or even with safety; I merely assert that the power is, in point of fact, in your hands. And for such a power, what a responsibility to God and man!

The responsibility of a minister is to step aside when there is a criminal investigation of the department. That protects the propriety of Parliament and of responsible government.

Yes, yes, children must early be made to practise piety, godliness, and propriety; a person of good breeding is one into whom 'good maxims' have been instilled and impressed, poured in through a funnel, thrashed in and preached in.

Your bottom may look very nice, but it does not belong on my sterile work surface.

Genius disregards the boundaries of propriety. Genius is permitted to shout if shouting is productive.

It is one of her aristocratic tastes, and quite proper, for a real lady is always known by neat boots, gloves, and handkerchief.

It's nice to have accomplishments and be elegant, but not to show off or get perked up." "These things are always seen and felt in a person's manner and conversations, if modestly used, but it is not necessary to display them.

ramp, it's one of the social graces.

Repression is a seamless garment; a society which is authoritarian in its social and sexual codes, which crushes its women beneath the intolerable burdens of honour and propriety, breeds repressions of other kinds as well.

I repeat: there is no place for monsters in civilized society. If such creatures roam the earth, they do so out on its uttermost rim, consigned to peripheries by conventions of disbelief...but once in a blue moon something goes wrong. A Beast is born, a 'wrong miracle', within the citadels of propriety and decorum.

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established