Quotes on Decency

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

Morals are private. Decency is public.

Author: Rita Brown

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

Author: Margaret Cavendish

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

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

Author: William Faulkner

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

Author: W. Fields

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

Author: Dag Hammarskjold

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

Author: Caroline Kennedy

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

Author: Deborah Kerr

Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.

Author: H. Mencken

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

Author: Francois Rochefoucauld