Quotes About Ethics

You are unjust to women in England. And till you count what is a a shame in a woman to be an infamy in a man, you will always be unjust, and Right, that pillar of fire, and Wrong, that pillar of cloud, will be made dim to your eyes, or be not seen at all, or if seen, not regarded.

Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them?  They seem, as a class, to have absolutely no sense of moral responsibility.

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame. It will be to each man what he is himself. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid.

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

Conciencia y cobardía son lo mismo realmente, Basil. La conciencia es el nombre comercial de la empresa. Eso es todo

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

Cuando somos felices siempre somos buenos, pero cuando somos buenos no siempre somos felices

It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals

Manners before morals!

Kiedy jeste?my szcz??liwi, zawsze jeste?my dobrzy, ale kiedy jeste?my dobrzy, nie zawsze jeste?my szcz??liwi.

The great events of the world take place in the Brain. It is in the Brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.

Was verabscheuenswerter sei, die Zeichen der Sünde oder die des Alter.

The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion - these are the two things that govern us

My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

One should always play fairly... when one has the winning cards.

in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with.  Girls don't think it right.