Decency Quotes · Page 3

Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Our standards of decency do not exist in the mind of a fraudster.

— Suella Braverman

Hope, decency, and unity are not mere catchwords.

— Jon Ossoff

“When we insult others, it says nothing about them but it shows how vulgar we are.”

— Leonard Seet

Tibet's a tragedy. It's an insult to human decency.

— Elie Wiesel

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

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Life would be a great deal easier if dead things had the decency to remain dead

— Anonymous

A real gentleman is as polite to a little girl as to a woman.

— Louisa May Alcott

Paris, true to its promise, had been a place of civilized indecencies, or uncivil decencies.

— Ana Castillo

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

— Saul Bellow

You're no angel. You're Fallen. You just haven't had the decency to lose your wings. [Reaver]

— Larissa Ione

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

— Thomas Hardy

If you are going to cover yourself for warmth and decency, you might as well cover yourself interestingly or well.

— Jean Marsh

“Decency" is a very old-fashioned word that conjures up a standard of behavior that has largely disappeared from the world.”

— Inc Amazon Digital Services

Honour is manly decency. The shame of being found wanting in it means everything to us. Is this, then, the indefinable, the…

— Alfred de Vigny

I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it…

— Victoria Woodhull

For eight years, President Obama represented us with class and with grace and with elegance and with decency. There were no scandals.…

— Ryan Clark

You do not want a war. You have known violence, you have suffered loss, but you have seen nothing of war. War…

— Joss Whedon

College is something you complete. Life is something you experience. So don't worry about your grade, or the results or success. Success…

— Jon Stewart

Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people…

— Isaac Asimov

The Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2004 helps address the continuing degradation on the broadcast airwaves and helps send a clear message…

— Mike Rogers

“I pretend not to be a champion of that same naked virtue called truth, to the very outrance. I can consent that…

— Walter Scott

What's wrong with death sir? What are we so mortally afraid of? Why can't we treat death with a certain amount of…

— Robin Williams

There was a time when people had the decency to wait until they were approaching 50 to have a mid-life crisis. Now…

— Mark Barrowcliffe

...I believe deeply that we canot solve the challenges of your time unless we solve them together - unless we perfect our…

— Barack Obama

And a noble life is one ordered by, and oriented to, a transcendent moral code, not just one's own concept of existence…

— Rick Santorum

For when man comes to front the everlasting God, and look the splendor of His judgments in the face, personal integrity, the…

— Frederick William Robertson

Social Note: I have sought escape in the Prytania on more than one occasion, pulled by the attractions of some technicolored horrors,…

— John Kennedy Toole

The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a…

— William Faulkner

We are all implicated when we allow other people to be mistreated. An absence of compassion can corrupt the decency of a…

— Bryan Stevenson

The difference between smartphones and cigarettes is this: a cigarette robs 10 minutes from your lifespan, but at least has the decency…

— Charlie Brooker

Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense."... "We must treat each…

— Theodore Roosevelt

War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.

— Khaled Hosseini

“It is hard to fake decency. I observed. - On Decency”

— Lamine Pearlheart

“Your own brain ought to have the decency to be on your side! Just,”

— Terry Pratchett

Most of my heroes are just decent people. Decency is rare and underrated.

— Sherman Alexie

silence is not weakness and decency is not pride

— Arthur Machen

You judge a society by the decency of living of the weakest

— Zygmunt Bauman

A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Perhaps what you call conventionality, I call decency.

— Dodie Smith