The only decent bone in her body was mine.
Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent Terms, and to give a harmonious and pleasing Turn to your Periods: study to explain your Thoughts, and set them in the truest Light, labouring as much as possible, not to leave them dark nor intricate, but clear and intelligible.
Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.
Every decent man had to be against fascism, period.
I really don't care with whom you sleep. I just care what kind of a decent human being you are.
We tend to buy things - a lot of things - where we don't know exactly what will happen, but the outcome will be decent.
Poetry died as a commercial form and then it died as a serious art form. No one serious touches it. It used to be that somebody like F. Scott Fitzgerald could make a high middle-class income from working as a short story writer for the Saturday Evening Post and other outlets. That doesn't happen anymore. It used to be that a legitimate playwright could make a living on Broadway from writing decent plays.
An industry that cannot pay its workers a decent living wage has no right to exist.
But even creeps deserve to live someplace halfway decent.
A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain moments.
If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage
Why waste your life working for a few shillings a week in a scullery, eighteen hours a day, when a woman could earn a decent wage by selling her body instead?
Everyone who gets sleepy at night should have a simple decent place to lay their heads, on terms they can afford to pay.
The measure of a decent human being is how he or she treats the defenseless.
Anybody that has a decent job or career has it because they love what they do.
It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent. Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behavior, just as money frees people from work.
Confidence, as opposed, to modesty and distinguished from decent assurance, proceeds from self-opinion, and is occasioned by ignorance and flattery.
I think Ron Paul's views are totally outside the mainstream of virtually every decent American.
Political correctness is a concept invented by hard-rightwing forces to defend their right to be racist, to treat women in a degrading way and to be truly vile about gay people. They invent this idea of people who are politically correct, with a rigid, monstrous attitude to life so they can attack. But we have all had to learn to modify our language. That's all part of being a decent human being.