Top 1200 Decent Man Quotes & Sayings

He was very much a man of moods, possibly owing to what is styled the artistic temperment. I have never seen, myself, why the possession of artistic ability should be supposed to excuse a man from a decent exercise of self-control.

I'm a decent cook; I'm a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.

A decent player doesn't automatically make a decent manager, I know that. But I will do everything I possibly can.

If you’re decent to others, then you’re decent to yourself.

Eric Holder is a decent man.

So if people have an opportunity for a decent job, a decent education, a decent health care system and security, I know that forceful migration will be reduced to zero.

Of course you can get a decent mouthful of food in New York. You can get a decent mouthful of food in Nairobi. You can get a decent mouthful of food in Warsaw or Chad if you look hard enough. It's just I wouldn't actually go there looking for the food.

The job is interesting, and the task is difficult, but the man [Maigret] is just a decent man doing a very ordinary job.

There are two races of men in this world but only these two: the race of the decent man and the race of the indecent man.

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.

Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays.

I'm a decent writer, barely a decent guitar player, and a terrible singer.

It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man.

Decent wages keep people out of homeless shelters. Decent wages allow families to afford books and, I don't know, school fees and things like that.

We are making the fundamental changes. It was like the decent housing target. We said by 2010, we'd have taken a million houses and refurbished them into decent housing.

I am not a man in decent shape.

I try to do my job and be a decent person, and a decent person has the courage to face what is not necessarily pleasant, what is perhaps dark and troublesome.

You can't have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.

A person may be totally unimaginative and have the social vision of a mole, and we still call him a decent man.

One of the great problems with Americans is that - being a decent people - they assume that everyone else is equally decent.

Every decent man had to be against fascism, period.

The big problem in the long process of dumbing down the schools is that you can reach a point of no return. How are parents who never received a decent education themselves to recognize that their children are not getting a decent education?

Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has others which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But finally there are still others which a man is even afraid to tell himself, and every decent man has a considerable number of such things stored away. That is, one can even say that the more decent he is, the greater the number of such things in his mind.

I have known Mr. Kumar Mangalam Birla for a long time. He is a good man. He is a decent man.

I suffer from the same frustration that every decent American suffers from. That is, that you begin to wonder whether decent liberal instincts, decent humanitarian instincts, can actually penetrate the right-wing voice, get through the steering of American opinion by the mass media.

One expects decent people to stand up for the good of all. Decent people shut their doors and hide behind them as decent people do. Massacres could never happen if it weren't for decent people.

When I was about five, I could do a vaguely decent American accent - straight through kind of decent - and 'Hercules' needed some kids. I definitely wasn't a good actor.

If a movie has three decent scenes and a decent character, I think, 'OK, at least they got that guy right.'

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

I spent money on a decent bike, a bit of kit for paddle boarding and I like bird watching so I bought a decent pair of binoculars but as far as bottles of Cristal champagne and Gucci loafers? No, blingy and showy stuff isn't me.

I'm a decent man who exports flowers.

I'm a man of the people, a man for all people. I reckon that's why I won 'Celebrity Big Brother.' People saw the real me, a decent bloke.

I was just like, "I want to make a decent 2-D movie." I was so worried that, instead of being a decent 2-D movie, it would have been a bad 3-D one.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

Al Gore is a good man. He is a decent, caring man. He listens to his heart and his head. He loves his family.

But what can a decent man speak of with most pleasure? Answer: Of himself. Well, so I will talk about myself.

I'm for the poor man - all poor men, black and white, they all gotta have a chance. They gotta have a home, a job, and a decent education for their children. 'Every man a king' - that's my slogan.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

Taint no law on earth dat kin make a man be decent if it aint in 'im.

It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave

Let me assure you that Mr. Hefner is the most decent man I've ever met in my whole life.

Any decent society has to be built on trust and love and the intelligent use of information and feelings. Education involves being able to practice those things as you struggle to build a decent society that can be nonviolent.

The punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble; but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned.

If the village worker is not a decent man or woman, conducting a decent home, he or she had better not aspire after the high privilege and honour of becoming a village worker.

You seem a decent fellow," Inigo said. "I hate to kill you." You seem a decent fellow," answered the man in black. "I hate to die.

My dad was actually my first mentor. Decent man, hard-working man, never missed a day of work plumber.

don't let anything make you believe that there are not as many decent men in the world as women, and they're just as decent. Life isn't worth living unless you know that - and it's true.

The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent nation.

Makes a diff'rence, havin' a decent family,' he said. 'Me dad was decent. An' your mum an' dad were decent. If they'd lived, life woulda bin diff'rent, eh?' 'Yeah, I s'pose,' said Harry cautiously. Hagrid seemed to be in a very strange mood. 'Family,' said Hagrid gloomily. 'Whatever yeh say, blood's important.

My feeling about the movies is that most of them are terrible. If you don't have a decent script and a decent director, forget it.

War makes murderers out of otherwise decent people. All wars, and all decent people.

I hope people remember me as a good and decent man. And if they do, then that's success.

I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence.

No real or decent man verbally attacks a woman.

I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't.

Every decent man of our age must be a coward and a slave. That is his normal condition. Of that I am firmly persuaded. He is made and constructed to that very end. And not only at the present time owing to some casual circumstance, but always, at all times, a decent man is bound to be a coward and a slave.

And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor.

Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of man? ... Does man have any responsibility for the preservation of a decent balance in nature, for the preservation of rare species, or even for the indefinite continuance of his race?

You know something? I'm decent! There isn't a great deal of decency in the world, especially in our business, and I'm one of the few really decent ladies around.

What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.