“ Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth — well, it's like brown — it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic. ”
- Iris Murdoch- Copy
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“ My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned language. ”
- Edward Gibbon- Copy
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“ The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name. ”
- William Makepeace Thackeray- Copy
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“ The fair, the chaste, and unexpressive she. - As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Chaste as the icicle That 's curdied by the frost from purest snow And hangs on Dian's temple. - Coriolanus. Act v. Sc. 3. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ God, to me, it seems, is a verb, not a noun, proper or improper. ”
- Richard Buckminster Fuller- Copy
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“ Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened. ”
- Stanley Walker- Copy
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“ The outstanding thing about my father to me anyway was just what a good and decent person he was. He was good and decent to everybody. ”
- Ron Reagan- Copy
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“ When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
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“ My mountain is dead. As soon as she has dried, I'll bury her under a decent layer of white paint. But I haven't done with the old lady; far from it! ”
- Emily Carr- Copy
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“ If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction. ”
- Alex Chilton- Copy
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“ The two kinds of people who exist in this world are the decent and the indecent. Color, religion and nationality are irrelevant. Kindness, decency and behavior are what matters most. Our collective challenge, it seems, is to create a city and community where decent people of all races, ethnicities and religions can look into the faces of other decent people and see only one thing — God's image smiling back. ”
- Rabbi Micah Greenstein- Copy
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“ We hear much of a decent pride, a becoming proud, a noble pride, a laudable pride. Can that be decent, of which we ought to be ashamed? Can that be becoming, of which God has set forth the deformity? Can that be noble which God resists and is determined to abase? Can that be laudable, which God call abominable. ”
- Robert Cecil- Copy
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“ Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then — we elected them. ”
- Lily Tomlin- Copy
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“ Everyone who gets sleepy at night should have a simple decent place to lay their heads, on terms they can afford to pay. ”
- Millard Fuller- Copy
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“ If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity marry, and perpetuate his kind. ”
- Don Marquis- Copy
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“ In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras. ”
- Tom Nolan- Copy
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“ Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent natural regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it. ”
- Frank Herbert- Copy
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“ People are always asking me what my lyrics mean. Well I say what any decent poet would say if you dared ask him to analyse his work: if you see it, darling, then it's there. ”
- Freddie Mercury- Copy
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“ The Courage that we all prize and seek is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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“ A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow. ”
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette- Copy
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“ Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue: every natural action is graceful, every heroic act is also decent and causes the place and the bystanders to shine. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed. ”
- Channing Pollock- Copy
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“ Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus, a Nymph, or any name that may apologize for a lack of decent clothing. ”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne- Copy
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