"In a very real sense, we are shipwrecked……" — Norbert Wiener

More Decencies Quotes

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• It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries… — Agnes Repplier
• Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet… — John Milton
• If you must commit suicide ... always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life… — 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… — Oscar Wilde
• I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The angry men know that this golden age (of fossil fuels) has gone; but they cannot find the words for… — George Monbiot
• She understood the genre constraints, the decencies were supposed to be observing. The morally cosy vision allows the embrace of… — 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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