Decency
The quality or state of being decent, suitable, or becoming, in words or behavior; propriety of form in social intercourse, in actions, or in discourse; proper formality; becoming ceremony; seemliness; hence, freedom from obscenity or indecorum; modesty.
That which is proper or becoming.
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Decency Quotations
The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.
Theodore Roosevelt
A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.
W. C. Fields
It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
H. L. Mencken
Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.
H. L. Mencken
God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
Aeschylus
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
Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter.
Tiger Woods
Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get the book written.
William Faulkner
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
Decency Translations
decency in French is courtoisie
decency in German is Anstand {m}, Schicklichkeit {f}
decency in Spanish is decencia
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