Top Decency Quotes

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

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 Definition

(n.) The quality or state of being decent, suitable, or becoming, in words or behavior; propriety of form in social intercourse, in actions, or in discourse; proper formality; becoming ceremony; seemliness; hence, freedom from obscenity or indecorum; modesty.

(n.) That which is proper or becoming.

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...

Maybe I owe you something too, human, she said, drawing her pistol. Butler almost reacted, but decided to give Holly the benefit of the doubt. Captain Short plucked a gold coin from her belt, flicking...

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

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,...

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

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

Did freedom have to mean abolishing common decency?

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!

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

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

Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.

Do right simply because it is right.

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.

Please. Thank you. Learn it. Love it. Or be disappointed.

Be not intimidated...nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hy...

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

I have seen flowers come in stony placesAnd kind things done by men with ugly faces,And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races,So I trust, too.