Morality Quotes - Page 11
We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
"On Moore's Life of Lord Byron" by Thomas B. Macaulay, 1830.
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3373, Manonmani Publishers
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.13, Harvard University Press
Penelope Fitzgerald (1978). “The Bookshop”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks (1976). “The Female Imagination”
Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.120, Oxford University Press on Demand
There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.
Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.437, University of Chicago Press
Michael Shermer (2005). “The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule”, p.51, Macmillan
What marriage is to morality, a properly conducted licensed liquor traffic is to sobriety.
1895 Quoted in Albert Bigelow Paine (ed) MarkTwain's Notebook (1935), ch.23.
There's no one so self-righteous as someone policing someone else's morality.
Laurell K. Hamilton (2005). “Incubus Dreams: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.619, Penguin
Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.
Karl Kraus (1977). “No Compromise: Selected Writings of Karl Kraus”, Frederick Ungar
Judith Martin (1984). “Miss Manners' guide to rearing perfect children”, Viking Pr