Quotes Tagged With :propriety

Repression is a seamless garment; a society which is authoritarian in its social and sexual codes, which....

Patience and propriety. It was the only graceful thing to do.

Success is not worth rejoicing over, failure is not worth grieving over.

How could you die and not be old enough to hear about premarital sex? How could you die and still not....

You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other....

Losing maturity in one’s fiction for the sake of marvels and monsters can also mean losing propriety,....

...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackle....

But my way of writing is rather to think aloud, and follow my own humours, than much to consider who....