To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.
To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.
But I do not do these things because we are family. I do them because they are common decencies. That is an idiom that the hero taught me. I do them because I am not a big fucking asshole. That is another idiom that the hero taught me.
If you must commit suicide... always contrive to do it as decorously as possible the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of.
The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
Those graceful acts, Those thousand decencies that daily flow From all her words and actions.
Politics are not my concern . . . They impressed me as a dog's life without a dog's decencies.
Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.
I value peace when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.
It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
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