Bill Cosby Quotes

When you're going into an employment environment that looks pretty scary, it is easy to lose your moral compass, your decency, your sense of civility and your sense of community.

I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.

Good manners are a part of good morals.

I've never used one word of profanity in front of my wife, or my daughter, or my granddaughter... or anybody else's wife.

Fits did not go over well in my house. There was a lot of discipline and obedience and you had to be very ladylike. Ladies didn't curse and I still don't curse in front of my parents.

Look not at what is contrary to propriety; listen not to what is contrary to propriety; speak not what is contrary to propriety; make no movement which is contrary to propriety.

I have to remember if I'm at some charitable event where kids are... I try to remember don't swear in front of the kids!

I hate it when people are impolite to waiters or to the valet or the guy in the supermarket. There's no need for that; it doesn't cost anything to be polite.

Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.

I've always had, like, from the age of about 11, I've had such an intolerance for bad behaviour of actors that I don't think I was ever going to be that person.

It doesn’t matter what you do, as long as you don’t do it in the street and frighten the horses.

Let us behave like ladies and gentlemen and refrain from damaging property.

T stands for being nice. T stands for manners. T stands for being polite.

I don't ever knock anybody; that's bad manners.

I was brought up in the Boys' Brigade and grew up not swearing. It's so lovely to behave decently, civilly.

The more Mr. Trump traduces the old established lines of decency, the more he affirms his supporters' most shameless ideological instincts.

It's not in what you wear but how you handle yourself. Like Hollywood celebrity Lindsay Lohan, I used to like her a lot because of her great fashion style but look at her attitude. Fashion is also about knowing what's right and doing what is right.

I'm not mean to fans because I'm a bad guy. I'm mean to them because they're rude.

You don't spit on people, especially people's corners.

There is a sense of decency that's like a barometer to a man's or a country's health.

what we need in the world is manners ... I think that if, instead of preaching brotherly love, we preached good manners, we might get a little further. It sounds less righteous and more practical.

Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?

The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors.

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency of sin.

Nothing is gained except by sacrifice.... Do not degrade it to the level of the brutes.... Make yourselves decent men! ... Be chaste and pure! ... There is no other way. Did Christ find any other way?