Quotes About Propriety

These things, she felt, were not to be passed around like disingenuous party favors

They were all things she would not give away in New York, where she watched others tell their drunken bar stories, prostituting their families and their trauma for popularity and booze. These things, she felt, were not to be passed around like disingenuous party favors.

Because like all whores you value propriety. You are creature of capitalism, the ethics of which are so totally corrupt and hypocritical that your beauty is no more than the beauty of gold, which is to say false and cold and useless.

A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.

There are certain things that only me, my friends and family should know. It's not everyone's business.

It was business, and business may be presumed to cover quite a lot of bad taste.

If I always behave with propriety, no matter what it costs me to suppress my own desires, then that is the measure of me. Such is the essence of self-control.

If I always behave with propriety, no matter what it costs me to suppress my own desires, then that is the measure of me." "Such is the essence of self-control, youngster.

Um homem verdadeiramente grave não pode gastar menos de dois minutos em tirar o lenço e assoar-se.

respectability with overtones of

I have precious little sympathy for the selfish propriety of civilized man, and if aware of races should occur between the wild beasts and Lord Man, I would be tempted to sympathise with the bears.

He affected to say some things, that, tho' trite, were sententious, and carried with them the air of observation. There is some degree of merit in having such a memory, as will help a person to repeat and apply other mens wit with some tolerable propriety. But when he attempted to walk alone, he said things that it was impossible a man of common sense could say.

Sopan santun banyak manfaatnya, tetapi tidak menuntut bayaran.

Quando si vive con persone che hanno una delicata sensibilità per la convenienza, abbiamo paura per loro se incontrano qualcosa di sconveniente.

In fiction we say and recognize things about ourselves, which, for the sake of propriety, we ignore or don't talk about in reality.

Rhetoric is useful because truth and justice are in their nature stronger than their opposites; so that if decisions be made, not in conformity to the rule of propriety, it must have been that they have been got the better of through fault of the advocates themselves: and this is deserving reprehension.

if you're going to be degenerate, you might as well be a lady about it, don't you think?

We fought in court against President Bill Clinton's taking money to pay his legal bills through a legal-defense fund. During the George W. Bush administration, we questioned the propriety of his father, President George H.W. Bush, working for Carlyle Group, an investment company that was, in effect, a major defense contractor.

As a matter of fact , personally I am ok with exposing, as long as it is done in good taste.

Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.

When Jerry Springer thinks you've gone too far, my friends, you have gone too far.

She had wandered so far from the rules of propriety that she was making up new ones just to keep from sinking into the abyss.

not to walk about in the house in my outdoor dress

It is the function of justice not to do wrong to one's fellow-men; of considerateness , not to wound their feelings; and in this the essence of propriety is best seen.