#decency

Mordred and Agravaine thought Arthur hypocritical—as all decent men must be, if you assume that decency can’t exist. ↗

— T.H. White

#hypocrisy #men

I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency. ↗

— Victoria Woodhull

#any #centered #compel #conservatism #decency

Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter. ↗

— Tiger Woods

#course #decency #golf #golf course #honesty

People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#about #buried #decency #get #healthy

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

— Margaret Cavendish

#delight #had #necessity #only #pleasure

Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example? ↗

— Dennis Prager

#beauty #cannot #decency #define #defined

With a foreign policy appropriately rooted in some sense of humanitarian decency, the Central African crisis will not be easily ignored by American policymakers. It screams for remedy. ↗

— Michael Johns

#american #appropriately #central #crisis #decency

That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness, manners, civility. Anything. It's such a powerful force. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#any #anything #back #civility #consideration

That so unlikely an outcome should accrue to a man possessed of such limited talent and so many flaws, and one lacking in a sense of ethics and decency was one of the bitter ironies of history. ↗

— William Thomas Green Morton

#decency #ethics #flaws #history #ironies

Decent people have too much respect for others to be overachievers. ↗

— Bauvard

#decency #funny #humor #funny