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Let him the intelligent man admonish, let him teach, let him forbid what is improper ! - he will be beloved of the good, by the bad he will be hated.
— Gautama Buddha
My chief gifts are - naturally good at all sports with a raw talent for pretty much everything, which if nurtured could develop into improper talent.
— Michael Sheen
Lady Rowena gasped in horror at the sight of Lord Raoul's majestic purple-helmeted warrior of love.
— Katie MacAlister
A friend in the true sense is not a person who passively nods approval of our conduct or ignores improper behavior. A friend is a person who cares.
— Marvin J. Ashton
HIGGINS [aggrieved] Do you mean that my language is improper?
MRS HIGGINS. No, dearest: it would be quite proper - say on a canal barge ... — George Bernard Shaw
MRS HIGGINS. No, dearest: it would be quite proper - say on a canal barge ... — George Bernard Shaw
If you don't," she said sweetly, "I'll tell my father you made improper advances to me. He'll have the skin flayed off your back.
— Diana Gabaldon
The English don't go in for imagination: imagination is considered to be improper if not downright alarmist.
— Martha Gellhorn
Medicines cannot drug away the cellular defects that develop in response to improper nutrition throughout life.
— Joel Fuhrman
To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all.
— Jane Austen
The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.
— F.H. Bradley
It is a just retribution for improper sexual misconduct
— Mother Teresa
Worry and improper thinking are luxuries as dangerous as drink.
— Evangeline Walton
The way his plump hand clutched at her hip seemed somehow improper; not morally, aesthetically.
— Truman Capote
The executive branch of this government never has, nor will suffer, while I preside, any improper conduct of its officers to escape with impunity.
— George Washington
for the Christian, good acts are not the cover for improper motives but, instead, the fruit borne of a loving relationship with God.
— Timothy Joseph Golden
Common sense will tell us, that
the power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others, the
most improper to defend us. — Thomas Paine
the power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others, the
most improper to defend us. — Thomas Paine
He left slowly, as if he had to pry himself away before he something improper. A growing part of me wished he'd stayed.
— Megan Shepherd
Your past cannot stop you from a bright future, but an improper interpretation of your past can be fatal to your future.
— Orrin Woodward
What an extraordinary fuss there has been,' said the Dame de Doubtance raspingly, 'about that irresponsible Irishwoman and her improper child.
— Dorothy Dunnett
In the faculty of speech man excels the brute; but if thou utterest what is improper, the brute is they superior.
— Saadi
Illness is the result of improper removal of toxins from the body. Oxygen is the vital factor which assists the body in removing toxins.
— Ed McCabe
What's improper about it?" retorted the clerk. "Everybody does it in Paris!" It was an irresistible and conclusive argument.
— Gustave Flaubert
Improper parental example in the home is a leading cause of the wandering of youth ...
— Nathan Eldon Tanner
God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.
— George Bernard Shaw
Christ, when she used words such as "validity" and "data", Quint wanted to do unspeakably improper things to her.
— Joanna Shupe
Where I come from, one wrong look, one improper word, and blood is spilled. Where I come from, a woman's face is her husband's business only.
— Khaled Hosseini
To praise oneself is considered improper, immodest; to praise one's own sect, one's own philosophy, is considered the highest duty.
— Lev Shestov
My mother says often enough that a young lady with my improper attitude can only come to ruin. I hope she's right.
— Ronda Thompson
Ignorance is the source of improper conduct.
— Kristina Meister
It's still a cowl, Frederic grumbled (few things could cause him to summon up his inner courage like improper word usage).
— Christopher Healy
An improper mind is a perpetual feast.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
We are fallen fools, most of our philosophy is not "the proper use of human reason" but the improper use of human reason.
— Peter Kreeft
Oh, we were a degree or two hotter than improper.
— Peter Carey
I completely love music. I used to be the music critic at 'The Improper Bostonian.' It's just something I've always loved very deeply.
— Matthew Tobin Anderson
Modesty is silent when it would be improper to speak; the humble, without being called upon, never recollects to say anything of himself.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
With the proper diet, no doctor is necessary.
With the improper diet, no doctor can help — Gabriel Cousens
With the improper diet, no doctor can help — Gabriel Cousens
An improper art aims at exciting in the way of comedy the feeling of desire but the feeling which is proper to comic art is the feeling of joy.
— James Joyce
She felt unpeeled and rather exposed. She felt almost improper.
— D.H. Lawrence