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Propriety Quotes

If you cannot conduct yourself with propriety, give place to those who can.

If you cannot conduct yourself with propriety, give place to those who can.

Horace
Giving, Propriety, Ifs

The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.

F. H. Bradley
Neighbor, Propriety, Persons

Be aroused by poetry; structure yourself with propriety, refine yourself with music.

Confucius
Music, Structure, Propriety

Straight-forwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness.

Confucius
Clever, Rudeness, Propriety
Confucius (2012). “The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.68, BookCaps Study Guides

Let a man be stimulated by poetry, established by the rules of propriety, and perfected by music.

Confucius
Men, Propriety

Propriety is the least of all laws, and the most observed.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Law, Propriety

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
Ignorant, Towns, Propriety
Fanny Burney (1857). “Evelina: Or, The History of a Young Lady's Introduction to the World”, p.56

Those expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in the family.

Thomas Bowdler
Expression, Literature, Propriety

If a man is not good, what has he to do with the rules of propriety? If he is not good, what has he to do with music?

Confucius
Music, Men, Propriety

Propriety's never been Adrian's strong suit.

Richelle Mead
Strong, Suits, Propriety
Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.37, Penguin

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

Mohsin Hamid
Scarcity, Thirst, Propriety
Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

A novice always behaves with propriety.

Martial
Novices, Propriety, Behave

A prig always finds a last refuge in responsibility.

Jean Cocteau
Responsibility, Lasts, Propriety
Jean Cocteau (1967). “The Infernal Machine: And Other Plays”, p.154, New Directions Publishing

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

Charles Caleb Colton
Mean, Propriety, Disciple
Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.112

This indigested vomit of the Sea,Fell to the Dutch by Just Propriety.

Andrew Marvell
Sea, Dutch, Propriety
Andrew Marvell (1872). “The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Andrew Marvell...”, p.243

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