Quotes About Morality

for when people are determined on a mode of conduct which they know to be wrong, they feel injured by the expectation of any thing better from them.

If I am wrong, I am doing what I believe to the right.

Here I am once more in this scene of dissipation and vice, and I begin already to find my morals corrupted. -- Jane Austen's Letters August 1796

Do not defer it. What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

I am not one of those who neglect the reigning to bow to the rising sun.

Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward.

Do you compare your conduct with his? No. I compare it with what it ought to have been; I compare it with yours.

You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing.

When a heroine is satisfied that she has exercised judgement with clear vision, moral principle,and common sense, she need not acquiesce to opposing viewpoints.

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not, what they ought to be, so are the nation.

Respect for right conduct is felt by everybody.

Pride has often been his best friend. It has connected him nearer with virtue than any other feeling.

The pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety. -Sense and Sensibility

Remember, cried Willoughby, from whom you received the account. Could it be an impartial one? I acknowledge that her situation and character ought to have been respected by me. I do not mean to justify myself, but at the same time cannot leave you to suppose that I have nothing to urge--that because she was injured, she was irreproachable, and because I was a libertine, she must be a saint...

No has de cambiar, por consideración a una persona, el significado de los principios y de la integridad, ni tratar de convencerte, o convencerme a mí, de que el egoísmo es prudencia y la insensibilidad ante el peligro certidumbre de felicidad.

When people are determined on a mode of conduct which they know to be wrong, they feel injured by the expectation of any thing better from them.

Nessuna condotta, neppure la più corretta, può sfuggire alla malevolenza della calunnia.

loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.

Çünkü s?rf içimizi rahatlatmak için verdiÄŸimiz sözleri bile tutamayacak hale gelirsek, ahlak kurallar?na ne olur?

Emma - faultless, in spite of her faults

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

But how little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue, she could easily conjecture.

The novels which I approve are such as display human nature with grandeur

Por una persona en concreto no debes trastocar el significado de principio y de integridad, ni intentar convencerte a ti misma o a mí, de que el egoísmo es prudencia o de que la insensibilidad ante el peligro es un seguro de felicidad