Best 108 quotes in «decent quotes» category

One does not contradict the other.Straight-faced is the basis of all decent comedy.

No work, as long as it is decent, can ever disgrace anybody.

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.

Religion increasingly is tending to degenerate into a decent formula wherewith to embellish a comfortable life.

Perjury is often bold and open. It is truth that is shamefaced - as, indeed, in many cases is no more than decent.

The defenders of decent society and the disciples of degeneracy are often the same people.

Sen. Obama is a decent person and a person you don't have to be scared of as president of the United States.

She just got out of the hospital. Why don't you go gossip behind her back, like decent people?

So there's much more to life than one's intelligence score. To be a decent human being. To have some character.

the Bible is only as good and decent as the person reading it.

The definition of indecent – when it’s in long, and it’s in hard, and it’s in deep – it’s in decent.

The money can be decent, but I really don't recommend the work-for-hire route as an entry into publishing. Too many things can go wrong.

... the English think of an opinion as something which a decent person, if he has the misfortune to have one, does all he can to hide.

The most valuable asset we have, actually, is our ability to understand, to do the right thing, to be kind, to be decent.

The only decent bone in her body was mine.

The Papacy was corrupt for whole centuries: especially from about 880 to 1050 and (with a short decent pontificate at rare intervals) 1290 to about 1660. No 'primacy' in any other organized religion has so disgraceful a record.

The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down.

There are decent people that I know who don't know how to treat their partner. It's been built up so hard and so high that people are afraid.

There is simply no limit to the tyrannical snobbery that otherwise decent people can descend into when it comes to music.

These women of mine are decent, simple human beings who have no other concern than that of their physical condition... it is as though one were watching through a keyhole.

The taboo against nakedness is an obstacle to a decent attitude on the subject of sex.

To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist. And there is no decent or charted way of making a living at it. It is something you are, and not something you do.

Trade is a proper and decent relationship, with dignity and respect on both sides.

Truly decent, innocent people can be taxing to be around.

War makes murderers out of otherwise decent people. All wars, and all decent people.

Stand up for your principles, but be a decent human being while you're doing it.

When you go to commercial, you want something to call the viewers back, and if you don't have a decent act out, the audience probably won't be there in the numbers you want when the show returns.

A decent life, even a short life, will always be far better than an exceptionally long life lived in ruin.

When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

With a director it's all about the work; I'd work with a great director over - you know, I'm not the kind of actor who that doesn't go, 'I want to play this role.' It's more like, 'I want to work with this director,' regardless of what the role is because if it's a good director, you'll probably find a good role because it's a decent film. But a mediocre director will always make a mediocre movie.

You can't get decent Mexican food in DC.

You know something? I'm decent! There isn't a great deal of decency in the world, especially in our business, and I'm one of the few really decent ladies around.

You've probably got a device on you that can shoot decent video, so what's stopping you?

We tend to buy things - a lot of things - where we don't know exactly what will happen, but the outcome will be decent.

I am a decent man who believe in myself and respect others.

Everything free and decent in life is being locked away in filthy little cellars by beastly people who don't care.

I ain't got no Visa, I ain't got no Red American Express, We can't go nowhere exotic, It don't matter 'cause I'm decent and Loyal.

It's excellence in leadership when everyone wants to manufacture a black shoe and you manufacture a designer black shoe with gold medal on top. Do something new; do something better!

If there was some way of knowing which boys were likely to turn out to be decent men, boys that could love us back as passionately as we felt we could love them, then we could banish the likelihood of divorce and unhappiness to a statistically unlikely outcome.

If you lose your integrity, you will also lose your identity, your sensitivity and your dignity. Integrity is honesty, modesty and security in all kinds of weather. It should be our priority!

If men would behave decently, the world would be decent.

Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations.

Above all, ascribe no decent motives to the federal government. Always and everywhere, it is the enemy of truth.

The only way a society of diverse people can survive without tearing itself apart over differences in nature is by accepting that ALL people are different, and that no single one of us is more or less deserving of decent treatment, compassion, legal and ethical equality, justice, life, or love, than any other.

Till a society remembers and starts caring its forgotten poor workers, it will remain to be a cruel and tinpot society!

What kind of country has this become? Decent people can’t do anything without being watched.

Your Brain is most Precious FACTORY in the World Because, It MANUFACTURES Thoughts

You're worse than decent. You're virtuous.

The anger is foolishness which always ends on embarrassment.

A decent boldness ever meets with friends.