“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
“Study first Propriety: for she is indeed the Pole-star.”
C. S. Calverley
“I believe it is important and timely for you to make a full public response on the propriety of your ruling on cases involving Vanguard and Smith Barney, Inc., at times when you had money invested in Vanguard Mutual Funds and Smith Barney, Inc., was your brokerage firm.”
Arlen Specter
“If there's any question to the propriety of accounting, we always have the ballots so they can be examined. That's something that doesn't exist with the touch-screen voting.”
Bryan Williams
