DECENCY

Related Subjects: Modesty, Morality, Nudity, Virtue

1. Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.—CICERO
   

2. Want of decency is want of sense.—WENTWORTH DILLON
   

3. My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied.—HORACE, Epistles
   

4. Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.—LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims

5. Those thousand decencies, that daily flow
   From all her words and actions.—MILTON, Paradise Lost
   

6. Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my father called decent.—T. L. PEACOCK, Crotchet Castle
   

7. Decency is Indecency's Conspiracy of Silence.—BERNARD SHAW, Maxims for Revolutionists
   

8. Decency of behavior in our lives obtains the approbation of all with whom we converse, from the order, consistency, and moderation of our words and actions.—SIR RICHARD STEELE