11 Quotes on Decency

• Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.

  Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

• Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.

  Author: H. Mencken

• I respect anyone who has to fight and howl for his decency.

  Author: Deborah Kerr

• As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency.

  Author: Caroline Kennedy

• I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.

  Author: Dag Hammarskjold

• A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.

  Author: W. Fields

• Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get the book written.

  Author: William Faulkner

• Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.

  Author: Quentin Crisp

• As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity.

  Author: Margaret Cavendish

• Morals are private. Decency is public.

  Author: Rita Brown

• I say we have not even had the decency to maintain the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us - our roads, our bridges, our wastewater systems, our sewer systems; by the way, those weren't Bolsheviks, those weren't socialists that built those things for us - much less build the infrastructure we need for the 21st century.

  Author: Michael Bennett

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