Decency Quotes

A man's religious choice didn't matter in the least if it was his path to decency and remembering his fellow man. — Heather Graham

The most fundamental winning formula is to bet on human decency and be patient. — Robert Breault

There is a sense of decency that's like a barometer to a man's or a country's health. — Samuel R. Delany

We should strive to treat each other with common Human Decency — Dr. Seuss

Do you have no sense of decency?
He pauses, seems to think about this, then turns and walks out the door. — Carolyn Crane

Are you decent?" a woman's voice called, pushing the door cautiously ajar.
"Nay, but we're clothed," Cian purred. — Karen Marie Moning

He had, in fact, got everything from the church and Sunday School, except, perhaps, any longing whatever for decency and kindness and reason — Sinclair Lewis

Do right simply because it is right. — Alex Treacher

As a governor and senator, John Chafee set the standard for honesty and decency that the rest of us on our best days could only dream to emulate. — John McCain

We can't hire out our own inner work, but we can do the manual labor with delight and decency. — Sakyong Mipham

Karate is not about techniques and their execution, but about boldness, integrity and fight for justice and common good — Soke Behzad Ahmadi

Honour is manly decency. The shame of being found wanting in it means everything to us. Is this, then, the indefinable, the sacred thing? — Alfred De Vigny

I pray that if a god watches over us, it will have the decency to avoid the tasteless maneuver of voyeuristic trespass. — Joshua Emmet

If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough. — Harold Macmillan

Regardfulness is the minimum expression of decency. — Eraldo Banovac

Sheer human decency and civility are two of the most important contributions to our community life that women of courage can make. — Chieko N. Okazaki

And die with decency. — Thomas Otway

Personally, I'm tired of hearing the whole have-you-no-decency routine from people who have made quite clear that they possess none themselves. — Glenn Reynolds

He believed in his own decency with all his heart. So it was with every true monster, Vic supposed. — Joe Hill

Those dogs of the hajj go to Mecca to pray when they don't possess even the decency or generosity of spirit to pardon or forgive. — Yousef Al-Mohaimeed

- How dare you, I repeat, In disregard of all decency, call me a goose?
- I spit on your head, Ivan Ivanovich! What are you screaming so for? — Nikolai Gogol

Integrity is never a given. It is a quality that can only be proven over time. — Gary Hopkins

Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok? — Thomas Sowell

At least, the sun had the decency to stay the hell away from us. — Jandy Nelson

Suddenly I am furious, that with my life on the line, they don't even have the decency to pay attention to me. That I'm being upstaged by a dead pig. — Suzanne Collins

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency of sin. — Horace Bushnell

Don't be afraid to go to your library and read every book as long as any document does not offend your own ideas of decency. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Honesty is nothin' compared to decency. — Jackie Mason

Life would be a great deal easier if dead things had the decency to remain dead. — Doug MacLeod

When approaching me in public, do not be rude. Say please. Introduce yourself. Have manners. Be considerate. Otherwise you'll be disappointed. — CM Punk

People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it. — Henrik Ibsen

So many of the world's problems, he mused, were solved by sheer human decency. — Maggie Stiefvater

A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal. — Boris Yeltsin

My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied. — Horace

Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get the book written. — William Faulkner

Fell in love with a beautiful blonde once. Drove me to drink. And I never had the decency to thank her. — W.C. Fields

There is no absolute right or wrong, good or evil, but there are good manners and common decency. — K.J. Parker

If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables? — Thomas Hardy

Youth and beauty fade. Human decency doesn't. — Colleen Hoover

Decency" is a very old-fashioned word that conjures up a standard of behavior that has largely disappeared from the world. — Amazon Digital Services

Order, cleanliness, seemliness make a structure that is half support, half ritual, and - if it does not create it - maintains decency. — Florida Scott-Maxwell

Culture is the greatest barrier to your enlightenment, your education, and your decency. — Terence McKenna

What they, in their innocence, cannot comprehend is that a properly constituted, healthy, decent man never writes, acts, or composes. — Thomas Mann

She was his beacon to what others called decency, not because she told him how to act but because she made him want to try. — Thea Harrison

Perhaps what you call conventionality, I call decency. — Dodie Smith

I'm here," I continued, "to guide you into the light of truth, decency and perhaps pants. — Paul Rudnick

Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism
and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency. — Stephen Jay Gould

Let all things be done in order, with right and decency. Those things are worth a man's life or two. Life without would be a hell, indeed. — Richard Llewellyn

Doubt makes a man decent. — Harry Crews

Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known. — Michael Shermer

Pursue decency in all dealings with your fellow man and woman. Simply put? Don't be an asshole. — Nick Offerman

Ever has common decency paved the way to uncommon folly. — Jay Lake

You think you're superior to the others, don't you? We'll you're not. In fact you're worse for mistaking basic human decency for moral superiority. — Nenia Campbell

Ethics, decency and morality are the real soldiers — Kiran Bedi

Yeah," I said, "but you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude. Where shall we eat? — Jack Kerouac

I was so full of hate that there was no room in me for such feelings as love, pity, kindness or honor or decency, — Carl Panzram

And who has prayed for Satan? In eight hundred years, who has had the common decency to pray for the one sinner who needed it most? — Mark Twain

Sometimes a bit of compassion and decency is reason enough to do something out of the ordinary. — Ariel Lawhon

But Bill Clinton had the good taste to lie about his sexual peccadillos. He had the honor and the decency to want to cover it up. — Lynn Samuels

Decency cannot be discussed without indecency! — George Bernard Shaw

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of Decency. — Theodore Roosevelt

I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy. — James L. Brooks

Alone knows what times we are living in when undisguised selfishness stifles all feelings of conscience, duty, or even ordinary decency. — Robert K. Massie

Honor is decency without vanity. — Arthur Koestler

Clinging to one's outward appearance interferes with living. — Kobo Abe

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it. — Christopher Hitchens

Nothing is more heart-breaking than the demise of decency. — Guo Moruo

There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense. — Jeannette Rankin

I fear yet this iron yoke of outward conformity hath left a slavish print upon our necks: the ghost of a linnen decency yet haunts us. — John Milton

The perfumes of lords and ladies tickled at my nose: lavender and orange oil. On the road, shit has the decency to stink. — Mark Lawrence

I think being on a set where people aren't being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable. — Gaby Hoffmann

Out of all the fighters that I have developed, clothed, financed, Gerrie Coetzee is the only one who had the decency to say 'thanks'. — Don King

I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency. — Tennessee Williams

Decency, not to dare to do that in public which it is decent enough to do in private. — Michel De Montaigne

It seemed that young people, despite their fundamental decency, now had to buy into a mind-set which made viciousness and treachery come easy. — Irvine Welsh

Your own brain ought to have the decency to be on your side! — Terry Pratchett

All this because one race did not have the decency to be ashamed of dealing in human flesh. — Whitney Otto

Decency and tolerance, to be of any value, must be capable of withstanding the severest strain. — Mahatma Gandhi

People are shit. The day you stop expecting decency from them is the day you'll free yourself from getting hurt. — L. H. Cosway

Fog and hypocrisy - that is to say, shadow, convention, decency - these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance. — Ada Leverson

Judgment consists not in seeing through deceptions and evil intentions, but in being able to awaken the decency dormant in every person. — Eric Hoffer

I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive. — Dag Hammarskjold

A real gentleman is as polite to a little girl as to a woman. — Louisa May Alcott

Survival wasn't nearly as hard as he'd thought once he left decency behind. — Leigh Bardugo

If you are not going to be a comfort, have the decency to be an empty space. — Jennifer Crusie

The point was living with grace, decency, and attention to the world, and breaking free of the artificial constructs in your own life. — Scott Jurek

Women deprived of decency are the damdest creatures that ever were borned. — James Reynolds

As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity. — Margaret Cavendish

The increasingly cynical court thought Arthur, hypocritical, as all decent men must be if you assume decency cannot exist. — T.H. White

If you can't say anything nice, at least have the decency to be vague. — Susan Andersen

Small acts of decency ripple in ways we could never imagine. — Cory Booker

Morals are a matter of private agreement; decency is of public concern. — Marguerite Yourcenar

On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way. — A. Bartlett Giamatti

The lesson of an American life like my father's ... is that achievements are compatible with decency (112). — Saul Bellow

Riding across Nebraska in a covered wagon was a monthlong immersion therapy in kindness, a reminder of the essential decency of my country. — Rinker Buck

Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter. — Tiger Woods

Mariam saw now the sacrifices a mother made. Decency was but one. — Khaled Hosseini

A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her. — W.C. Fields

Caprice in women often infringes upon the rules of decency. — Jean De La Bruyere

How dared you, I repeat, in disregard of all decency, call me a goose? — Nikolai Gogol