Quotes About Values

You should treat the trivial things in life seriously and the serious things in life with a sincere and studied triviality

Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.

Moral grounds are always the last refuge of people who have no sense of beauty.

It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals

Faithfulness! I must analyse it some day. The passion for property is in it. There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything.

Civilization is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

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.

That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people would want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste.

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.

Society--civilized society, at least--is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its opinion, the highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef ... Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees...

It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting.

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

However, 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.

The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out. 

Position and wealth are not everything.

And I walk out of space Into an overgrown garden of values, And tear up seeming stability And self-comprehension of causes. And your, infinity, textbook I read by myself, without people - Leafless, savage medical book, A problem book of gigantic radicals.

Here in flesh and blood was a truth which I had long believed in words, but never met before. The creature we call a gentleman lies deep in the heart of thousands that are born without chance to master the outward graces of the type.

Knowing what moral values and ethics are will not guarantee that good decisions will be made, but it will allow us to recognize that some problems have moral dimensions.

In a crass and materialistic world there must inevitably be a scattered few here and there in whom pumpkins touch no chord.

You can't win integrity and honor from games. You can only earn them from living a life dedicated to those ideals.

I don't think the amount of belief you have is what's important. I think it's what you have belief in that matters.

He was no prude, but he had those decent prejudices of which no self-respecting man can wholly rid himself, however broad-minded he may try to be.