“Study first Propriety: for she is indeed the Pole-star.”
C. S. Calverley
“Straightforwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness”
Confucius
“Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil.”
Horatio Nelson
“The pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.”
Jane Austen
“A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion”
Robert Chapman
“We pleaded that whatever was fit to be done at all might with propriety be done by anybody who did it well; that the tools belonged to those who could use them; that the possession of a power presupposed a right to its use. This was urged from city to city, from state to state. Women were encouraged to try new occupations.”
Lucy Stone
“A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.”
Marcus Fabius Quintilian
