Propriety Quotes

• In a certain sense, and to a certain extent, he [the president] is the representative of the people. He is elected by them, as well as congress is. But can he, in the nature [of] things, know the wants of the people, as well as three hundred other men, coming from all the various localities of the nation? If so, where is the propriety of having a congress?

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Sense
  • Congress

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

  

  Confucius
  • Music
  • Poetry
  • Propriety

• Architecture depends on Order, Arrangement, Eurythmy, Symmetry , Propriety , and Economy.

  

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
  • Economy
  • Depends
  • Symmetry

• Rhetoric is useful because truth and justice are in their nature stronger than their opposites; so that if decisions be made, not in conformity to the rule of propriety, it must have been that they have been got the better of through fault of the advocates themselves: and this is deserving reprehension.

  

  Aristotle
  • Truth
  • Justice
  • Opposites

• Murder before impropriety! ... It never fails to shock me - what a properly brought-up Englishwoman will condone to ensure her blessed propriety.

  

  Carole Nelson Douglas
  • Murder
  • Shock
  • Englishwoman

• The superior man, extensively studying all learning, and keeping himself under the restraint of the rules of propriety, may thus likewise not overstep what is right.

  

  Confucius
  • Learning
  • Superior Man
  • Propriety

• Look not at what is contrary to propriety; listen not to what is contrary to propriety; speak not what is contrary to propriety; make no movement which is contrary to propriety.

  

  Confucius
  • Movement
  • Contrary
  • Propriety

• Asking women to respect themselves in order to ‘earn’ the right to be treated like a human being is total horseshit. But suggesting that you have the right to treat her exactly as you please because she didn’t adhere to your archaic views of feminine propriety is misogyny, plain and simple.

  

  Clementine Ford
  • Simple
  • Humans
  • Order

• There are as many kinds of modesty as there are races. To the English woman it is a duty; to the French woman a propriety.

  

  Hippolyte Taine
  • Duty
  • Modesty
  • Races

• Propriety and single interest divides the people of a land and the whole world into parties and is the cause of all wars and bloodshed and contention everywhere.

  

  Gerrard Winstanley
  • Interest
  • Land
  • Wars

• 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
  • Man
  • Propriety

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

  

  Confucius
  • Rules
  • Straight
  • Propriety

• Even in killing men, observe the rules of propriety.

  

  Confucius
  • Rules
  • Killing
  • Propriety

• I believe the power of observation in numbers of very young children to be quite wonderful for its closeness and accuracy. Indeed, I think that most grown people who are remarkable in this respect, may with greater propriety be said not to have lost the faculty, than to have acquired it; the rather, as I generally observe such men to retain a certain freshness, and gentleness, and capacity of being pleased, which are also an inheritance they have preserved from their childhood.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Children
  • Respect
  • I Believe

• If a man has no humaneness what can his propriety be like? If a man has no humaneness what can his happiness be like?

  

  Confucius
  • Like
  • Propriety
  • Humaneness

• Poesy is a beauteous damsel, chaste, honourable, discreet, witty, retired, and who keeps herself within the limits of propriety. She is a friend of solitude; fountains entertain her, meadows console her, woods free her from ennui, flowers delight her; in short, she gives pleasure and instruction to all with whom she communicates.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Friend
  • Instruction
  • Poesy

• I'm a gentleman, if nothing else. It's taken me years to become one, but finally I have a sense of propriety.

  

  Eric Stoltz
  • Gentleman
  • Propriety

• In fiction we say and recognize things about ourselves, which, for the sake of propriety, we ignore or don't talk about in reality.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Reality
  • Fiction
  • Recognize