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#propriety

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The main hallway of the Sternwood place was two stories high. Over the entrance doors, which would have let in a troop of Indian elephants, there was a broad stained-glass panel showing a knight in dark armor rescuing a lady who was tied to a tree and didn’t have any clothes on but some very long and convenient hair. The knight had pushed the vizor of his helmet back to be sociable, and he was fiddling with the knots on the ropes that tied the lady to the tree and not getting anywhere. I stood there and thought that if I lived in the house, I would sooner or later have to climb up there and help him. He didn’t seem to be really trying.


Raymond Chandler


#efficiency #humor #knights #propriety #rescue

I respectfully suggest the propriety of having stationed at the arsenal a full company of U. S. troops, that they may be made available in any emergency, from fire, insurrection, or any thing else.


Thomas L. Smith


#arsenal #available #company #else #emergency

You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner." (Elizabeth Bennett)


Jane Austen


#behaviour #declaration #empowerment #gentlemanlike #gentlemen

A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned.


Xun Zi


#any #beautiful #born #desires #ears

I feel a real need to observe a level of propriety in what I'm handing out. Instead of me just venting or spilling my guts, I've got to consider how it's going to affect people. How it's going to affect me, as well. Because it's like a cycle.


Eric Clapton


#because #consider #cycle #feel #going

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


Thomas Bowdler


#expressions #family #omitted #propriety #read

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.


Maria Mitchell


#alone #cave #courage #doubtful #escort

I do not mean that you could continue to do this with propriety or even with safety; I merely assert that the power is, in point of fact, in your hands. And for such a power, what a responsibility to God and man!


Jay Alan Sekulow


#continue #could #even #fact #god

The charge was left entirely to himself from midnight until the rising of the sun; and if all the shepherds in the Forest had been there to have assisted him, they could not have effected it with greater propriety.


James Hogg


#been #charge #could #effected #entirely

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


Jane Austen


#behavior #employment #enjoyment #manners #propriety






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