Quotes About Decency

I don't know. Just because someone's pretty doesn't mean she's decent. Or vice versa. I'm not into appearances. I like flaws, I think they make things interesting.

Only a real asshole takes liberties with someone else's car stereo. That's serious.

Just because someone's pretty, doesn't mean she's decent.

To establish such a forthright dream of decency, who wouldn't sign up to shoot at a few thousand Englishmen, just as long as Mr. Bean wasn't among them?

The lesson of an American life like my father's... is that achievements are compatible with decency (112).

It never seems to occur to such criminals that to behave with decency to another human being might also be gratuitous.

It was the middle-class female solidarity, defending a nice girl from charges of calculation and viciousness. Nice girls marry for love. But should they fall out of love, they must be free to love another. No decent husband will oppose the heart.

The subject of all this talk is, ultimately, survival—the survival of the decent society created in Israel within a few decades.

I would define an asshole as anyone who chooses to make the lives of others less pleasant for reasons that don't appear productive or necessary.

The most valuable thing in the world is a good person.

Be not intimidated, therefore, by any terrors, from publishing with the utmost freedom whatever can be warranted by the laws of your country; nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberty by any pretenses of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery, and cowardice.

Be not intimidated...nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice.

Don't underrate ordinary human decency," Josh said quietly. "There's more of heaven in a guy who hands a cold soda to a hot, tired panhandler than there is in fifty moral philosophers.

Decent fall the clothsover a high income.

In his heart, he knew that there was no reason to be impolite to someone, even if they did work for you. There was such a thing as manners after all.

You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters.

I had met plain women, even ugly women, whose physical shortcomings had been remedied by the spirit within, their decency and kindness even effecting a kind of transformation upon them, softening the bluntness of their features. This was not such a woman. The blight was inside her, and no restyling of her hair, no careful use of cosmetics, no pretty dresses could have made her any less unsettling than she was.

Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

I saw the end of his life right there in that single moment. His pride, his decency, his secrets, his death.

The man that blushes is not quite a brute.

A thought that carries filth; indeed, incites and excites lecherous character and conduct; conversely, thought that holds decency; certainly, executes and displays dignity and moral values of life.

Don't try to defeat evil but try not to be evil.

The best people care, their goodness, civility, courtesy, and fairness, but not the bad ones.

The decent people are famous and known with their virtual decency, but not their shape or the dress.