Propriety Quotes

A certain class of novels may with propriety be called fables.

a deviation from propriety scarcely ever escapes punishment.

I'm waiting for the day when my children cease to find my domestic propriety reassuring and actually find it annoying.

There's this line between propriety and how we really speak and how we really think. And I'm just trying to have fun with that stuff.

Worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them.

It is the effect of scarcity; one’s rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper.

Avant-garde art jousts with propriety, but takes care never to unseat it.

A novice always behaves with propriety.

Propriety is that perfection of style which comes when a work is authoritatively constructed on approved principles. It arises from prescription, from usage, or from nature.

The [President's] Nomination, of Course, brings the Subject fully under the Consideration of the Senate; who have then a Right to decide upon its Propriety or Impropriety.

Proportion and propriety are among the best secrets of domestic wisdom; and there is no surer test of integrity than a well-proportioned expenditure.

How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory.

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

It has been so written, for the most part, that the times it describes are with remarkable propriety called dark ages. They are dark, as one has observed, because we are so in the dark about them.

Whamming someone smaller than oneself in order to teach that person civilized behavior is not within Miss Manners' concept of propriety, much less logic.

The row of dolls watched her impassively from the bookshelf, their tea party propriety almost certainly offended.

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.

...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Patience and propriety. It was the only graceful thing to do.

Losing maturity in one’s fiction for the sake of marvels and monsters can also mean losing propriety, and that’s not always a bad thing.