quotes about Propriety
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This indigested vomit of the Sea,Fell to the Dutch by Just Propriety.
-- Andrew Marvell -
If a man has no humaneness what can his propriety be like? If a man has no humaneness what can his happiness be like?
-- Confucius -
Straight-forwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness.
-- Confucius -
I am too inexperienced and ignorant to conduct myself with propriety in this town, where every thing is new to me, and many things are unaccountable and perplexing.
-- Fanny Burney -
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Propriety is the least of all laws, and the most observed.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
If you cannot conduct yourself with propriety, give place to those who can.
-- Horace -
Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation.
-- Lawana BlackwellSource : Lawana Blackwell (2007). “Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, The”, p.173, Bethany House
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It is the effect of scarcity; one’s rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper.
-- Mohsin Hamid -
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Those expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in the family.
-- Thomas Bowdler