Top Propriety Quotes
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...
Jane Austen
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behaviour, declaration, empowerment, gentlemanlike, gentlemen, humiliation, love, marriage proposal, men, mr darcy
She sang, as requested. There was much about love in the ballad: faithful love that refused to abandon its object; love that disaster could not shake; love that, in calamity, waxed fonder, in poverty...
Charlotte Bronte
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empathy, expectations, expression, faithfulness, feeling, fidelity, gender, gift, hypocrisy, jealousy
Propriety Definition
(n.) Individual right to hold property; ownership by personal title; property.
(n.) That which is proper or peculiar; an inherent property or quality; peculiarity.
(n.) The quality or state of being proper; suitableness to an acknowledged or correct standard or rule; consonance with established principles, rules, or customs; fitness; appropriateness; as, propriety of behavior, language, manners, etc.
There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?Are you a young lady?I am a thousand times better: I am an honest woman, and as such I wil...
Charlotte Bronte
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expectations, gender, honesty, independence, influence, integrity, love, marriage, matrimony, propriety