I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
If you can't say anything nice, at least have the decency to be vague. — Susan Andersen Copy Share Image
Our standards of decency do not exist in the mind of a fraudster. — Suella Braverman Copy Share Image
“When we insult others, it says nothing about them but it shows how vulgar we are.” — Leonard Seet Copy Share Image
Morals are a matter of private agreement; decency is of public concern. — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
You know something? I'm decent! There isn't a great deal of decency in the world, especially in our business, and I'm one… — Judy Garland Copy Share Image
It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Suddenly I am furious, that with my life on the line, they don’t even have the decency to pay attention to me.… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter. — Tiger Woods Copy Share Image
You're a great brother. You give us a heart attack worrying about your heart attack, which you didn't even have the decency… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
I moved to a city and joined a sort of fast crowd. A lot of people who grew up in the city… — Derek Blasberg Copy Share Image
“We delude ourselves if we think that decency is not rewarded in other people simply because we refuse to practice it ourselves.” — Sarah Scheele Copy Share Image
“A virtuos woman is not moved by big names and flamboyance, but only men of profound wisdom and integrity move her.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“I suppose the test of one’s decency is how much of a fight one can put up after one has stopped caring,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The torch America carries is one of decency and hope. It is not America's torch alone. But it is America's duty -… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
A successful villain should have all these things at his or her villainous fingertips, or else give up villainy altogether and try… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You want to unify America with a sense of culture and decency and all of this that reasserts and reaffirms the concepts… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I'd like to be remembered as a guy who tried - who tried to be part of his times, tried to help… — Paul Newman Copy Share Image
I don't think most of my opinions, political or social, are so far outside of the mainstream that they'd cause massive outrage… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
In its heyday, the blazer had come to symbolise a kind of conventional decency. Yacht club commodores and school bursars wore blazers.… — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
“He shouldn’t even be thinking about dragging her into his wayward world of carnal games. He should give her a free pass.… — C.C. Gibbs Copy Share Image
We used to have adults who set standards, moral standards, cultural standards, legal standards. They were better than we were. They gave… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Maybe I owe you something too, human," she said, drawing her pistol. Butler almost reacted, but decided to give Holly the benefit… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
[Bill Clinton] was the man, as a matter of fact, who, in terms of the Communications Decency Act, which would have made… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
It is this idea 'decency' should be attached to wealth -and 'indecency'' to poverty - that forms the core of one strand… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The New Capitalism (arising from the global economic downturn)...those running our biggest commercial businesses will have to be more visible. They'll have… — Robert Peston Copy Share Image
“The maid told him that a girl and a child had come looking for him, but since she didn't know them, she… — George Sand Copy Share Image
The fact that some governments, churches and numerous corrupted individuals have tried to reduce such behavior from criminal offence to personal privilege… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
The puritanical potentialities of science have never been forecast. If it evolves a body of organized rites, and is established as a… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
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
Too great a display of delicacy can and does sometimes infringe upon de-cency. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get the book written. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image