Decencies Quotes
14 quotes by 12 authors
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It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
— Agnes Repplier
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Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned union…
— John Milton
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In a very real sense, we are shipwrecked passengers on a doomed planet. Yet, even in a shipwreck, human decencies and human values do not…
— Norbert Wiener
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If you must commit suicide ... always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never…
— George Henry Borrow
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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
— Aldous Huxley
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I value peace when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.
— Elia Kazan
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Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
— Alexander Pope
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To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for…
— Oscar Wilde
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I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The angry men know that this golden age (of fossil fuels) has gone; but they cannot find the words for the constraints they hate. Clutching…
— George Monbiot
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She understood the genre constraints, the decencies were supposed to be observing. The morally cosy vision allows the embrace of monstrosity only as a reaction…
— Glen Duncan
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Politics are not my concern.... They impressed me as a dog's life without a dog's decencies.
— Rudyard Kipling
Who Wrote These Decencies Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 14 Decencies Quotes as follows: