(360 quotes found)
“When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once”
Samuel Butler
“He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.”
Margery Allingham
“Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed”
Channing Pollock
“One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.”
May Sarton
“I only have to do three things to look halfway decent, curl my eyelashes, fill in my eyebrows and put some lipstick on.”
Courteney Cox
“The English masses are lovable: they are kind, decent, tolerant, practical and not stupid. The tragedy is that they are too many of them, and that they are aimless, having outgrown the servile functions for which they were encouraged to multiply. One day these huge crowds will have to seize power because there will be nothing else for them to do, and yet they neither demand power nor are ready to make use of it; they will learn only to be bored in a new way.”
Cyril Connolly
“The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down.”
Errol Flynn
“I think that Peter Jennings is the only decent one of the big three.”
Alexander Payne
“It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man.”
David Harris
“It's definitely got more explosions, crashes and thermonuclear fallout than you can decently put in a movie, ... But what also drew me to it is that it is a cautionary tale. Technology makes war seems clean and clinical unless it's you that's being attacked.”
Josh Lucas
