Quotes About Morality

Cada um de nós tem em si o Céu e o Inferno

The books that the world calls immoral books are books that show the world its own shame.

What is the difference between scandal and gossip? Oh! gossip is charming! History is merely gossip, but scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

No artist has ethical sympathies.

I admit that i think it is better to be beautiful then to be good. But on the other hand no one is more ready to admit then i, it is better to be good then ugly.

loving for their mere artificiality those renunciations that men have unwisely called virtue, as much as those natural rebellions that wise men still call sin.

El pecado es el único elemento colorido que queda en la vida moderna

No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime".

The middle classes air their moral prejudices over their gross dinner-tables, and whisper about what they call the profligacies of their betters in order to try and pretend that they are in smart society and on intimate terms with the people they slander.

Oh! I killed Bunbury this afternoon... I mean poor Bunbury died this afternoon. What did he die of? Bunbury? Oh, he was exploded!

No existen libros morales o inmorales. Los libros están bien o mal escritos. Eso es todo.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

No son of mine should ever take the side of the Puritans: that is always an error.

One is not always happy when one is good; but one is always good when one is happy.

And self-sacrifice is a thing that should be put down by law.  It is so demoralising to the people for whom one sacrifices oneself.  They always go to the bad.

art had no moral responsibility. Art, he argued, should strive only to be a beautiful object entirely separate from its creator.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. The nineteenth century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass. The nineteenth century dislike of romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass. The moral life of man forms part of the subject-matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium

I don't propose to discuss politics, sociology, or metaphysics with you. I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

One hardly knew at times whether one was reading the spiritual ecstasies of some mediaeval saint or the morbid confessions of a modern sinner. It was a poisonous book.

I wish I had, for as sure as there is a God in heaven, if he ever does you any wrong, I shall kill him.

Morality does not help me. I am a born antinomian...I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does. I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.

Sumienie i tchórzostwo to to samo. Sumienie to po prostu nazwa firmowa. Nic wiÄ™cej.

bardziej lubi? ludzi ni? zasady, a ponad wszystko lubi? ludzi bez ?adnych zasad.

Todo delito es vulgar, de la misma manera que todo lo vulgar es delito.