Quotes About Ethics

People who can be very good can be very bad too.

The world is full of good people who do bad things!

What they need is a little immorality in their lives. Then they wouldn't be so busy looking for it in other people's.

What you do not understand is that there are things that cannot be bought.

In every profession and walk of life there is someone who is vulnerablle to temptation. (Mr. Barnes)

I will not look through keyholes," I interrupted hotly. Poirot closed his eyes. "Very well, then. You will not look through keyholes. You will remain the English gentleman and someone will be killed.

I have always disapproved of murder.

People will quite often do anything for money. - Jane Marple

Young men are sadly degenerate nowadays.

The great merit of being a doctor," said Sir Bartholomew, "is that you are not obliged to follow your own advice.

It's as easy to utter lies as truth

There seems to be a general idea that a clergyman is incapable of behaving like a gentleman. That is not true.

If you look into somebody's soul by accident, you feel a bit embarrassed about cashing in.

Can one build an honest house on dishonest foundation? I do not know. But I do know that I want to try. (Edward Ferrier)

I've no patience with modern humanitarian scruples about capital punishment.

The trouble is that practically everything one does nowadays is illegal," said Giles gloomily. "That's why one has a permanent feeling of guilt.

You can always depend on an Englishman to play the game

The innocent must not suffer.

The moral character of the victim has nothing to do with it! A human being who has exercised the right of private judgment and taken the life of another human being is not safe to exist amongst the community.

Of course,' said Miss Marple, 'a lot of people are stupid. And stupid people get found out, whatever they do. But there are quite a number of people who aren't stupid, and one shudders to think of what they might accomplish unless they had very strongly rooted principles.

A man who has shot lions in large quantities has an unfair advantage over other men.

What they need," said Griselda, "is a little immorality in their lives. Then they wouldn't be so busy looking for it in other people's." And

Nowadays young people seem to think they can just go about doing anything they choose.

People are so proud of their wickedness. Odd, isn't it, that people who are good are never proud of it?