Quotes with propriety

  • Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation.
  • A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal delicacy, propriety, and judgment?

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  • Confucius Boldness, without the rules of propriety, becomes insubordination.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Jonathan Swift A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal delicacy, propriety, and judgment?
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Jane Austen I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Lawana Blackwell Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation.
    Lawana Blackwell
    English writer
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  • Emma Goldman Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the father's curse, mother's moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.
    Lacon
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Queen Victoria The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of ''Woman's Rights'' with all its attendant horrors on which her poor, feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feeling and propriety.
    Queen Victoria
    Queen of Great Britain (1819 - 1901)
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  • Mary Wollstonecraft Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man.
    Mary Wollstonecraft
    British feministisch writer (1759 - 1797)
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