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

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 respect anyone who has to fight and howl for his decency.
Deborah Kerr

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

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

I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.
Studs Terkel

If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough.
Harold MacMillan