Propriety Quotes

You've alluded, you've insinuated, you have tiptoed to the brink of impropriety. -RORY. - Gilmore Girls

Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man. - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter. - Jane Austen

With over half the accounting investigation completed without discovery of material impropriety, much of the risk of an accounting fraud would appear to be greatly diminished. - John Inch

When you have no evidence of impropriety, no evidence of fraud ... to just count and count until someone wins one way or the other just isn't the way to do it. - Orrin Hatch

We're sort of pondering what they mean by research misbehavior, which is not in anybody's anthology of terms about research impropriety. - Donald Kennedy

We pleaded that whatever was fit to be done at all might with propriety be done by anybody who did it well; that the tools belonged to those who could use them; that the possession of a power presupposed a right to its use. This was urged from city to city, from state to state. Women were encouraged to try new occupations. - Lucy Stone

To determine the propriety of referring the matter to the Department of Justice . - Norm Coleman

Those expressions are omitted which can not with propriety be read aloud in the family. - Thomas Bowdler

This was about the appearance of impropriety. - Dick DeGuerin