Impropriety Quotes

#1. Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of impropriety onto our own side of the scale.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#2. A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.

Tacitus

#3. Has no one ever told you that it is the height of impropriety to kiss any gentleman, unless you have the intention of accompanying him immediately to the altar?

Georgette Heyer

#4. Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.

Jane Austen

#5. Government ought to be all outside and no inside ... Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.

Woodrow Wilson

#6. If the impertinent remarks of Mrs. Jennings are to be the proof of impropriety in conduct, we are all offending every moment of our lives.

Jane Austen

#7. When you are lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is tabooed by anxiety, I conceive you may use any language you choose to indulge in without impropriety.

W.S. Gilbert

#8. He poured out the wine and took a deep draught of it, then loosened his neckcloth, an act of dinner table impropriety that would have affronted most other wives, but which I strongly encouraged. Brisbane had a very handsome throat.

Deanna Raybourn

#9. Can you use these on me? Right now, please ... Fuck yes. I'm always amazed at how quickly my cock can jump to attention at the hint of any sexual impropriety.

Ella Dominguez

#10. An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.

Gary Hamel

#11. Impropriety is the soul of wit.

W. Somerset Maugham

#12. The clerk in the Tank involuntarily applauded. Becoming immediately sensible of the impropriety, he poked the fire, and extinguished the last frail spark for ever.

Charles Dickens

#13. While discretion points out the impropriety of my conduct, inclination urges me on to ruin.

Susanna Rowson

#14. I value my reputation. I work hard to avoid even the appearance of impropriety.

Richard Hanna

#15. The [President's] Nomination, of Course, brings the Subject fully under the Consideration of the Senate; who have then a Right to decide upon its Propriety or Impropriety.

George Mason

#16. What impropriety or limit can there be in our grief for a man so beloved?.

Horace

#17. You also need to show a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to impropriety. That's one of the things, again, that Republicans left on the table as a missed opportunity.

Andrea Tantaros

#18. I believe it is conceded that, notwithstanding the fabled blue laws of New England, a man may, without impropriety, kiss his wife on Sunday and possibly, if he have a chance, some other sweet-faced woman.

David Josiah Brewer

#19. In following the Way, the noble-minded treasure three things: a manner free of violence and arrogance, a countenance full of sincerity and trust, a voice free of vulgarity and impropriety.

Confucius

#20. When they behave properly, you will say there is no problem. When they complain loudly, you will say they cause their own problems with their impropriety. And when they are driven to extremes, you say you will not reward such actions. What will it take for you to listen?

Ann Leckie

#21. Temporis ars medicina fere est.
Time is generally the best medicine.

Ovid

#22. I'm a real home girl.

Lisa Snowdon

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

Mohsin Hamid

#24. The Purple Scar might have been a paper casualty of World War II.

John S. Endicott

#25. Not everybody is going to agree with your dream. I'm sure you've had border bullies in your life as you moved into your career. And what we don't want to do is focus upon them.

Bruce Wilkinson

#26. His love was too much for him, he felt paralyzed, he wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe her blood and be smothered.

Tim O'Brien

#27. Don't judge it. Just write it. Don't judge it. It's not for you to judge it.
Interview in Esquire Magazine 10/10

Philip Roth