Common decency Quote by Ruth Hogan Download Open image ““Common decency, good manners, kindness and hard work were treated as peculiarities”” — Ruth Hogan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Common decency Good man Kindness
“The great thing about being always among people of noble manners was the inevitable elevation of one's own.” — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“without good manners, human society would be intolerable and impossible” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Small kindnesses, small courtesies, small considerations, habitually practised in our social intercourse, give a greater charm to the character than the display of great… — M.A.Kelty Copy Share Image
“Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady. Straightforwardness without civility is like a surgeon's knife, effective but unpleasant. Candor with courtesy… — Yukteswar Giri Copy Share Image
“Yet I had not been many days shut up with them before I began to be ashamed of my first judgment, when I had… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“But the best-treated, most favored and intelligent part of any society is often the most ungrateful. Ingratitude, however, is its social function.” — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“They grew up, moulded by the harsh or kindly pressure of their fellows, to be either well nurtured, generous, sound, or mentally crippled, bitter,… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
“I think kindness, out of all virtues, is the best quality to have.” — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
“In the North, he discoverd, courtesy was considered a barometer of genuine esteem; for any decently brought up Southerner, good manners were simply habitual.” — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
“Polite people tend to be more respected, admired, and appreciated than their rude counterparts.” — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
“He drank milk and fruit juice straight from the carton, ate with his elbows on the table, held his knife like a pen, and… — Ruth Hogan Copy Share Image
“A hush is a dangerous thing. Silence is solid and dependable, but a hush is expectant, like a pregnant pause; it invites mischief, like… — Ruth Hogan Copy Share Image
“the wonderful thing about books was that they were films that played inside your head.” — Ruth Hogan Copy Share Image
“And women with red shoes and green handbags were never to be trusted.” — Ruth Hogan Copy Share Image
“Her grandmother had once told her that one could blame ugliness on one's genes and ignorance on one's education, but there was absolutely no… — Ruth Hogan Copy Share Image
“could have sworn that she saw the tip of Douglas’s tail wag. She left Bomber to his odious sister and tripped downstairs into the… — Ruth Hogan Copy Share Image
“Henry. She could never trust a man who shared his name with a vacuum cleaner.” — Ruth Hogan Copy Share Image
Common decency demands that [NCAA athletes] should be paid, but the only way it will happen is the same way workers got paid throughout… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
This is why I say that the individual's most potent weapon is a stubborn belief in the triumph of common decency. — Paul Rusesabagina Copy Share Image
“We are passing through an eerie phase of history in which the things that everyone really knows are treated as unheard-of doctrines, a time… — J Budziszewski Copy Share Image
“Again, we may decry the color-prejudice of the South, yet it remains a heavy fact. Such curious kinks of the human mind exist and… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“ONE OF the most irrational of all the conventions of modern society is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected.… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“I have had some experiences with love, or think I have, anyway, although the ones I have liked best could easily be described as… — Kurt Vonnegut 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 - which should… — Joe Klein Copy Share Image
“Against such a background one can easily imagine the shock that must have gripped readers of The Times of London, who turned to their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You might not get the apology you deserve. You might not get answers to explain the actions of others. You might not get truth… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“We would do well, as Orwell counselled, to see the traces of the dystopian around us, to find the ends of those threads and… — Darran Anderson Copy Share Image
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