Quotes About Decency

Good manners are a part of good morals.

I attended the public schools.And I have happy memories and strong memories of those days and good memories of the good sense and the decency of my friends and my neighbors.

We all must try to be good.

If you want to be good, all you've got to do is be good.

I'd like to play nothing but good characters.

I consider myself to be a good guy so it's not hard for me to play that.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

I've got great faith in the essential fairness and decency - you may say goodness - of the human being.

Happiness is inseparably connected with decent, clean behavior.

Be always decent and right in your home town; and when you're on the road, never take more than four glasses of beer a day or play higher than a twenty-five-cent limit.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

Honesty is nothin' compared to decency.

Dishonesty is a forsaking of permanent for temporary advantages.

As a governor and senator, John Chafee set the standard for honesty and decency that the rest of us on our best days could only dream to emulate.

Yeah," I said, "but you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude. Where shall we eat?

I take my fundamental cue from John Coltrane that says there must be a priority of integrity, honesty, decency, and mastery of craft.

Honesty's praised then left to freeze.

Honor has to say "please" and "thank you." Manners are really important.

Honor is decency without vanity.

Virtue is the fount whence honor springs.

I do what I do without hope of reward or fear of punishment. I do not require Heaven or Hell to bribe or scare me into acting decently.

One expects decent people to stand up for the good of all. Decent people shut their doors and hide behind them as decent people do. Massacres could never happen if it weren't for decent people.

If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.

The law often permits what honor prohibits.