A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her. — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
“But you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude.” — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency. — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
Acts of sacrifice and decency without regard to what's in it for you create a ripple effect. Ones that lift up families… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Masters of the bluff and masters of the proposition, but the enemy I see wears a cloak of decency. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Culture is the greatest barrier to your enlightenment, your education, and your decency. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Poverty didn't necessarily engender an envy of wealth; sometimes it might beget a passion for decency. — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
Never assume, no matter how strong the temptation, that other people are low-life lying manipulators without a shred of human decency. — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
The more Mr. Trump traduces the old established lines of decency, the more he affirms his supporters' most shameless ideological instincts. — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
If the standard for art is the decency of its creators, we're going to have a lot of empty museums. — Bari Weiss Copy Share Image
Said to Mairin; "There's little decency to good loving" Maddie said. "If 'tis decent, it isn't much fun"! — Maya Banks Copy Share Image
“But what a way to do things-never to perform a decent action until you are kicked into it and the rest of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Curious," it said. "What you call your decent self doesn't dare look me in the eye! What a mistake people make who… — John Kendrick Bangs Copy Share Image
Capital punishment has probably been responsible for a good deal of human progress. The overwhelming majority of those executed were of the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I believe that poverty is often the result of inappropriate behavior - out-of-wedlock births, dropping out of school, crime and drugs -… — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
September 11 was, and remains, above all an immense human tragedy. But September 11 also posed a momentous and deliberate challenge not… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Is he a scumbag in training?” Richard glanced at the gunman. “At least have the decency to hold the gun properly, you… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
The Internet is a far more speech-enhancing medium than print, the village green, or the mails. Because it would necessarily affect the… — Stewart Dalzell Copy Share Image
“Decency: the inexplicable: the ground of all ethics. Things we do not do. We do not stare when the soul leaves the… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
... until both employers' and workers' groups assume responsibility for chastising their own recalcitrant children, they can vainly bay the moon about… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
I want the young people to pay attention because, see, back when I first met Barack, we started dating, he had everything… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
It is no disparagement to the garden to say it will not fence and weed itself, nor prune its own fruit trees,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I would say that there exists a thousand unbreakable links between each of us and everything else, and that our dignity and… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I believe that this hairless embryo with the aching, oversize brain case and the opposable thumb, this animal barely up from the… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
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