Propriety Quotes

Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.

A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.

I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.

Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established.

Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation.