Best 108 quotes in «decent quotes» category

I smoke really good cigars, I don't smoke Cuban cigars. I would never do anything as Un-American as smoke a decent cigar.

It's such a shame that people are so much more worried about being right than being decent.

I think there's a lot of good and bad to L.A. One of the things you have to consider is that you can, if you're lucky, make a decent living here. That's a big plus. That's pretty positive. The weather is OK.

It is one of history's great ironies that capitalists built decent and humane societies on the basis of an amoral approach to the economics of pricing, whereas socialists built exploitative and inhumane societies on the basis of a morally inflamed approach to economics.

I think Hillary Clinton is an outstandingly capable and decent person.

I think Ron Paul's views are totally outside the mainstream of virtually every decent American.

I would rather have 1 amazing best friend than 100 decent regular friends. It's not about quantity, it's about quality.

I've had the pretty good fortune of working with some decent guys and gals.

I wanted [Martin] to be a really decent human being because I didn't want to depict the cliché that a woman becomes a lesbian because her husband is terrible to her.

I was just like, "I want to make a decent 2-D movie." I was so worried that, instead of being a decent 2-D movie, it would have been a bad 3-D one.

I wouldn't burden any decent system of faith by participating in it... I'm not agnostic. Just nonpartisan. Theological Switzerland, that's me.

It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.

Most of my heroes are just decent people. Decency is rare and underrated.

Many a fine style has evolved from a decent handicap.

Monstrous behavior is the order of the day. I'll tell you when to be shocked. When something human and decent happens!

Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.

Marriage wrecks any decent relationship.

My best business decision is always to have been unembarrassed about negotiating a decent deal. Not being coy or shy about money is second nature to me.

Move somewhere with decent public transit so you don't drive drunk and hit somebody.

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

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.

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.

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

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

... 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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