Quotes About Morality

Everyone suspects themselves of at least one of the cardinal virtues...

There were no more wise men; there were no more heroes;

I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply.

Men don't often know those times when a girl could be had for nothing.

She was incurably dishonest.

Very well then, better a sane crook than a mad puritan.

I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.

We all must try to be good.

I am too much a moralist at heart, and really want to preach at people in some acceptable form, rather than entertain them.

If we could only learn to look on evil as evil, whether it's clothed in filth or monotony or magnificence.

I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified.

We shook hands and I started away. Just before I reached the hedge I remembered something and turned around. 'They're a rotten crowd,' I shouted across the lawn. 'You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.' I've always been glad I said that. It was the only compliment I ever gave him, because I disapproved of him from beginning to end.

I don't complain of conventional morality. I complain rather of the mediocre heretics who seize upon the findings of sophistication and adopt the pose of a moral freedom to which they are by no means entitled by their intelligences.

Until the great mobs could be educated into a moral sense, someone must cry: Thou shalt not!

They damned the books I read and the things I thought by calling them immoral; later the fashion changed, and they damned things by calling them 'clever.

It made no difference to me. Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply.

Of course I've got one--a man can't live without a moral code. Mine is that I'm against the burning of witches. Whenever they burn a witch I get all hot under the collar.

If one can't be a great artist or a great soldier, the next best thing is to be a great criminal.

Do you believe in bobbed hair? asked G. Reece in the same undertone. I think it's unmoral, affirmed Bernice gravely. But, of course, you've either got to amuse people or feed'em or shock'em.

It's essentially cleaner to be corrupt and rich than it is to be innocent and poor.

And of course all that he is is a gifted man without a moral sense.

Acho que todo mundo na América, exceto umas mil pessoas escolhidas, deveria ser obrigado a aceitar um código moral super-rígido: o catolicismo romano, por exemplo. Não me queixo da moralidade convencional. Pelo contrário, reclamo dos heréticos medíocres que roubam os frutos da sofisticação e adotam uma pose de liberalidade moral a que suas inteligências não fazem jus.

I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy - they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made...