John Masefield Quote

A virtuos woman is not moved by big names and flamboyance, but only men of profound wisdom and integrity move her.

The best place for discovering what a man is is the heart of the desert. Your plane has broken down, and you walk for hours, heading for the little fort at Nutchott. You wait for the mirages of thirst...

I respect anyone who has to fight and howl for his decency.

[Fitzgerald's] latter work represents essentially best qualities of chivalry and decency now too often lacking in the English themselves.

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

If you lose your integrity, you will also lose your identity, your sensitivity and your dignity. Integrity is honesty, modesty and security in all kinds of weather. It should be our priority!

In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible to any public office...

Decency is such a rare thing in this world, and it can only be repaid with loyalty.

Did freedom have to mean abolishing common decency?

What have I always believed?That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would,...