Propriety Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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?

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

A novice always behaves with propriety.

Propriety's never been Adrian's strong suit.

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

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

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

A prig always finds a last refuge in responsibility.