Decencies Quotes

14 quotes by 12 authors

It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization. — Agnes Repplier
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
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
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
The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency. — Aldous Huxley
I value peace when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies. — Elia Kazan
Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever. — Alexander Pope
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
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
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
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
Politics are not my concern.... They impressed me as a dog's life without a dog's decencies. — Rudyard Kipling

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