Proprieties Quotes

#1. English politics is so much more concerned with the proprieties than with defending dogmas.

Jim Crace

#2. Proprieties of place, and especially of time, are the bugbears which terrify mankind from the contemplation of the magnificent.

Edgar Allan Poe

#3. One moment it's a cathedral, at another time there is no words to describe it when it ceases, for short periods of time, to have any regard for the proprieties that constitute not only Parliament, but its tradition. I've seen it in all its greatness. I have inwardly wept over it when it is degraded.

John Diefenbaker

#4. I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.

Fatty Arbuckle

#5. For proverbs are the pith, the proprieties, the proofs, the purities, the elegancies, as the commonest so the commendablest phrases of a language. To use them is a grace, to understand them a good.

John Florio

#6. Reactionary nostalgia for the proprieties of Victorian England is unfortunate, like a whore looking under the bed for her virginity.

Bruce Robinson

#7. Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.

John Dryden

#8. We are disgusted by gossip; yet it is of importance to keep the angels in their proprieties.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. And we had our own laws. I mean, I wrote them. And we had our own customs, and traditions, and proprieties.

James Stockdale

#10. I could spank Constantine and skin him alive afterwards, that I could," she exclaimed bitterly.
"Oh, Susan, I'm surprised at you," said the doctor, pulling a long face. "Have you no regard for the proprieties? Skin him alive by all means but omit the spanking.

L.M. Montgomery

#11. her mother had never done what was expected of her, had seemed determined to ignore proprieties. In so doing she had broken the glass ceiling. And it was not all that she had broken.

Brian McGilloway

#12. Pollution is a serious one. Water pollution, air pollution, and then solid hazardous waste pollution. And then beyond that, we also have the resources issue. Not just water resources but other natural resources, the mining resources being consumed, and the destruction of our ecosystem.

Ma Jun

#13. Must've been some lay for her to be so bent out of shape over it."
"I couldn't say," he muttered. "I don't remember."
"Were you drunk?"
"No. Jesus." He scrubbed at his face. "What the hell did she tell you?

Sylvia Day

#14. Skepticism has become a virtue. Cynicism and demand for proof has become enlightened thought. Is it any wonder that humans now feel more depressed and defeated than they have at any point in human history?

Dan Brown

#15. I had gotten used to the idea that people lived and you loved them, or didn't, and then they died and you were bound to miss them, often even if you didn't love them.

Amy Bloom

#16. YOU DON'T ALWAYS GET TO DO WHAT YOU LOVE; SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO FORCE YOURSELF TO LOVE WHAT YOU DO.

Brad Lomenick

#17. And he sank into reverie, which lasted a long time.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#18. A few words of Hindi appear here or there, but it's all Urdu. I feel that if the popular culture, which is what Hindi films are, uses Urdu, it's not going to diminish.

Ismail Merchant

#19. A huge part of what a kid learns when they're growing up is social and emotional development. As adults, we take it for granted that other people have emotions that are different from ours, and we can identify what they are, but those are skills that children have to learn.

Tim Schafer

#20. I can sell anything that I totally believe in, but I'm a horrible salesman of something I don't believe in.

Nick Woodman