Quotes about Propriety
Don't be curious of matters that don't concern you; never speak of them, and don't ask about them.
- Teresa of Avila
No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.
- Mark Twain
Why didn't you tell her it was no business of hers?" said Eben angrily. "Old Flora Jane had better mind her own business.
- LM Montgomery
Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established
- Confucius
What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming.
- Cicero
Mrs. Fairford smiled. "I've sometimes thought," she mused, "that Mr. Popple must be the only gentleman I know; at least he's the only man who has ever told me he was a gentleman—and Mr. Popple never fails to mention it.
- Edith Wharton
Vulgarity, in my mind, is not cool.
- Ted DiBiase Sr.
To mind your own business incorporates the whole duty of man.
- Brigham Young
The man who thrusts his manners upon me does as if he were to insist on introducing me to his cabinet of curiosities, when I wished to see himself.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
Let a man be stimulated by poetry, established by the rules of propriety, and perfected by music.
- Confucius