Decencies Quotes

#1. Televison allows thousands of people to laugh at the same joke and still remain alone.

Bertrand Russell

#2. One who preserves all the exterior decencies of ignorance.

Samuel Foote

#3. No longer in print ... There are sentences, and phrases that, in all their simplicity, say much more than they seem to at first: two months to live, never heard of it, dead on arrival ... For a writer, no longer in print must fall somewhere in that category.

Herman Koch

#4. It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.

Agnes Repplier

#5. Oh heavy change. The world deteriorates like a rotting apple, worms and a skin.

Robinson Jeffers

#6. I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#7. If you must commit suicide ... always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of.

George Henry Borrow

#8. I am shocked at the attitude of our American troops. They have no respect for death, the courage of an enemy soldier, or many of the ordinary decencies of life.

Charles Lindbergh

#9. Fuck with the bull, you get the horns.

Garth Ennis

#10. Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

Steve Jobs

#11. Everything can become something it's not

Lauren DeStefano

#12. Every day when I wake up, I remind myself that the present is possibility, and the past is a lesson.

Kim Holden

#13. But I do not do these things because we are family. I do them because they are common decencies. That is an idiom that the hero taught me. I do them because I am not a big fucking asshole. That is another idiom that the hero taught me.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#14. Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned union of mind, or in us both one soul.

John Milton

#15. To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.

Oscar Wilde

#16. Humphrey finds everybody charming I never can get him to abuse Casaubon. He will even speak well of the bishop, though I tell him it is unnatural in a beneficed clergyman; what can one do with a husband who attends so little to the decencies? I hide it as well as I can by abusing everybody myself.

George Eliot

#17. God is not opposed to pride because it is something only He can possess; God is opposed to pride because pride is unlike Him.

John Alan Turner

#18. The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

Aldous Huxley

#19. Let me say this as clearly as I can: No matter how sharp a grievance or how deep a hurt, there is no justification for killing innocents.

William J. Clinton

#20. This a work of f(r)iction, where fact and fiction rub up against each other, and nobody wants to know it regardless.

Bob N. Boguslavski

#21. a body, until the whole of Miss Baxter

Laura Wood

#22. Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

Alexander Pope

#23. In a very real sense, we are shipwrecked passengers on a doomed planet. Yet, even in a shipwreck, human decencies and human values do not necessarily vanish, and we must make the most of them. We shall go down, but let it be in a manner to which we may look forward as worthy of our dignity.

Norbert Wiener

#24. I value peace when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.

Elia Kazan

#25. If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

Richard P. Feynman

#26. Paris, true to its promise, had been a place of civilized indecencies, or uncivil decencies ...

Ana Castillo

#27. Politics are not my concern ... They impressed me as a dog's life without a dog's decencies.

Rudyard Kipling

#28. A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#29. One who binds risks getting bound in return. I will not walk that path.

Steven Erikson