Quotes of Decency - somelinesforyou

“ Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. ”

- Charlotte Bronte

“ A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues. ”

- Cicero

“ She just wore enough for modesty; no more! ”

- Robert Williams Buchanan

“ That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another's. We see so much only as we possess. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do. ”

- Karl Barth

“ No law reaches it, but all right-minded people observe it. ”

- Sebastien Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

“ Don't overestimate the decency of the human race. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency. ”

- Caroline Kennedy

“ What do you gain, Soviet Union, from this miserable policy? Where is your decency? Would it be a disgrace for you to give up this battle? ”

- Golda Meir

“ Modesty and unselfishness: These are the virtues which men praise, and pass by. ”

- Andre Maurois

“ Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot. ”

- Thomas Moore

“ Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate. They too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ Assume a virtue, if you have it not. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum. ”

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

“ Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues. ”

- Confucius

“ Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others. ”

- William Hazlitt

“ Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ When virtue hides her face it is called modesty; when vice does so, it is called shame. ”

- Evan Esar

“ To struggle for virtue, is to be virtuous. ”

- Ivan Panin

“ A man that hath no virtue in himself ever envieth virtue in others. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ Our virtues are like crystals hidden in rocks. No man shall find them by any soft ways, but by the hammer and by fire. ”

- Henry Ward Beecher

“ The most precious treasure is virtue. ”

- Gautama Buddha

“ Virtue is not always amiable. ”

- John Adams

“ The more we use wisdom and virtue, the more they are our own, and the more we have of them. ”

- Benjamin Whichcote

“ The most influential of all the virtues are those which are the most in request for daily use. They wear the best, and last the longest. ”

- Samuel Smiles

“ He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Most virtues lie between two vices. ”

- Horace

“ Morality is moral only when it is voluntary. ”

- Lincoln Steffens
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