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A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.
W. C. Fields
Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.
Meir Kahane
Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter.
Tiger Woods
Alabama citizens, like the vast majority of Americans, respect and value the meaning of decency, and appreciate public institutions that reflect the common values of our society.
Mike Rogers
As a governor and senator, John Chafee set the standard for honesty and decency that the rest of us on our best days could only dream to emulate.
John McCain
As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity.
Margaret Cavendish
As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency.
Caroline Kennedy
Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.
Quentin Crisp
Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.
H. L. Mencken
Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.
Pablo Casals
Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get the book written.
William Faulkner
God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
Aeschylus
HUD's mission is to provide decency and sanitary housing for low and moderate income people in this country.
Alphonso Jackson
I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
Dag Hammarskjold
I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy.
James L. Brooks
I love our shared island, our shared Ireland and its core decency. I love it for its imagination and its celebration of the endless possibilities for our people.
Michael D. Higgins
I respect anyone who has to fight and howl for his decency.
Deborah Kerr
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.
Michael Bennett
I see the great continuities in New Zealand history as being decency and common sense and up until now when we've confronted these things we've been able to talk them through, and I'm sure we will with this issue as well.
Michael King
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