Propriety famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

This indigested vomit of the Sea,Fell to the Dutch by Just Propriety.
-- Andrew Marvell

#Sea #Dutch #Propriety
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

#Happiness #Men #Propriety
Straight-forwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness.
-- Confucius

#Clever #Rudeness #Propriety
I am too inexperienced and ignorant to conduct myself with propriety in this town, where every thing is new to me, and many things are unaccountable and perplexing.
-- Fanny Burney

#Ignorant #Towns #Propriety
Propriety is the least of all laws, and the most observed.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Law #Propriety
If you cannot conduct yourself with propriety, give place to those who can.
-- Horace

#Giving #Propriety
Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation.
-- Lawana Blackwell

#Reputation #Masters #Propriety
It is the effect of scarcity; oneâ€™s rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper.
-- Mohsin Hamid

#Scarcity #Thirst #Propriety
Those expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in the family.
-- Thomas Bowdler

#Expression #Literature #Propriety

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When I first heard about Beverly Hills Chihuahua, I thought, no. This, this is ridiculous. And then you read the script and you close the script and you go, "They aren't going to be able to do that with real dogs. How are they going to do that?" You're going to see the strings. But they did.
I learned not to be so bitterly defeated when my fiction took a beating from editors. I learned in advertising to color in the lines and have my work done on time and to make it the very best it could be.
Conceit and arrogance are acquired states of mind. Conquer acquired states of mind, and basic sanity can unfold. Passion and willfulness are part of false consciousness; erase false consciousness, and true consciousness will appear.
The day you spend hoping, the day you spend waiting, the day you spend in despair, is a day in your life as much as the tomorrow you hope for, but which may never come, so betting today on tomorrow is always a bad bet.
We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.
Vanity is not half a bad principle, if it will but stick to legitimate business.
When you do have songs where you're going to say something, some kind of statement about cultural or social stuff, that in general people love it. People love to be challenged in that way.
I find that the best way to do things is to constantly move forward and to never doubt anything and keep moving forward, if you make a mistake say you made a mistake.
I've played villains on stage - you know, the Iagos and so on - but I think of myself as a funny person. I mostly did comedies before I did TV work.