Quotes About Virtuously

Mrs. Jaffee a little earlier. I asked if he was escorting Mrs. Jaffee. "Certainly," he said virtuously. "She is my client. What's that noise you're making?" "It's something special," I told him, "and takes a lot of practice. Don't try it offhand. It's a derisive chortle.

Certainly," he said virtuously. "She is my client. What's that noise you're making?" "It's something special," I told him, "and takes a lot of practice. Don't try it offhand. It's a derisive chortle.

They might also ask us by what reasoning we have concluded that we can have it both ways, that in one breath we can say that those remote and lofty thinkers have not answered our questions as to the good, and, in another, we can boast that we have indeed become a better species, having virtuously given up such nasty habits as slavery and dueling and cannibalism.

The truth of the matter was, of course, that the new taxes would have fallen far more heavily on the rich than on the poor, but it is always easy to sway public opinion by announcing virtuously that the government is spending too much and that taxes must be cut.