Quotes About Decency

We take fortuitous resemblances among us to be actual likeness, because those around us have also fallen heir to the same customs, trade in the same coin, acknowledge, more or less, the same notions of decency and sanity. But all that really just allows us to coexist with the inviolable, untraversable, and utterly vast spaces between us.

podría satisfacer su curiosidad morbosa, su apetito chismográfico, ese placer inmenso que produce a los mediocres, la mayoría de la humanidad, saber que los famosos, los respetables, las celebridades, los decentes, están hechos también del mismo barro mugriento que los demás.

She bade solitude good-bye. Good-bye to no schedule but whim; good-bye to her life among no things but her own and each always in place; good-bye to no real meals, good-bye free thought. The whole fat flock of them flapped away. But what was solitude for if not to foster decency? Her solitude always held open house. when was the last time anyone needed her? She was eager to do it, whatever it was.

Os vegetarianos são os inimigos de tudo o que há de bom e decente no espírito humano, uma afronta a tudo aquilo em que acreditamos, a pura apreciação da comida.

Ä°yilik seçilemeyen bir ÅŸeydir. Ä°nsan seçemediÄŸinde insanl?ktan ç?kar. (syf. 73 – 74)

Lady Warminster represented to a high degree that characteristic of her own generation that everything may be said, though nothing indecorous discussed openly.

All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.

Men may be bad in many ways, But good in one alone.

Could you conjugate that? To sleaze. I sleaze. You sleaze. We all have sleazen.

It's indecent for anyone to be this happy, Tracy Whitney thought.

When I was your age, if a boy behaved badly, one simply scored his name out from one's dance card. (Sadie Lancaster - to Lara Lington)

Unclean life is ungodliness.

If you can't be as best as you dreamed of, Least be a good man in reality.

If you need someone to explain morality to you, then you likely have little of it to draw from.

Sometimes a bit of compassion and decency is reason enough to do something out of the ordinary.

Tragedy comes quick and loud, while the small acts of decency that follow come slowly and quietly.

Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.

Ach, wie anständig finden wir uns doch, wenn wir keinen Anlass haben, unanständig zu sein!

The solutions offered by our ancestral cowardice are the worst desertions of our duty to intellectual decency. To be fooled, to live and die duped, is certainly what men do. But there exists a dignity which keeps us from disappearing into God and which transforms all our moments into prayers we shall never offer.

Respectable people... What bastards!

I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the death of manners and formality, the death of poetry and the death of a dream.

The man who hastens to tell another man that he has dropped a thousand franc bill from his pocket-book, or even that the handkerchief is coming out of his pocket, would think it a mean thing to warn him that some one was carrying off his wife.

What a mistake people make who say that the man who won't look you in the eye is not to be trusted! As if mere brazenness were a sign of honesty; really, the theory of decency is the most amusing thing in the world.

I'm inspired by the people I meet in my travels--hearing their stories, seeing the hardships they overcome, their fundamental optimism and decency. I'm inspired by the love people have for their children. And I'm inspired by my own children, how full they make my heart. They make me want to work to make the world a little bit better. And they make me want to be a better man.