Rita Mae Brown Quotes

In some ways, 'decency' is a hazy concept; we know it when we see it.

Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.

Observe decorum, and it will open a path to morality.

It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.

Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.

I'm actually a very moral guy.

I consider myself to be very correct and proper: an upright citizen.

Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.

If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.

What is permissible is not always honorable.

We ought never to do wrong when anyone is looking.

Virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.

A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.

There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living.

I'm actually a pretty decent human being, and when I'm home I'm straight as an arrow.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Marty Stanovich was an honorable man.

If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.

All my life I have been taught to take the high road and never to dignify salacious or false accusations and I have been taught never, never to lie.

A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.