morals quotes

• Matters change and morals change; men remain. (John Galsworthy) [change/morals/change/men]
• When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned. (Herbert Hoover) [government/morals/people]
• When the sun comes up, I have morals again. (Elizabeth Taylor) [sun/morals]
• Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur. (Raymond Chandler) [men/morals/integrity/etiquette]
• We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [morals/mankind/etiquette/etiquette]
• You can t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty. And least of all can you condemn an artist pursuing, however humbly and imperfectly, a creative aim. In that interior world where his thought and his emotions go seeking for the experience of imagined adventures, there are no policemen, no law, no pressure of circumstance or dread of opinion to keep him within bounds. Who then is going to say Nay to his temptations if not his conscience? (Joseph Conrad) [sound/morals/care/integrity]
• The higher the building the lower the morals. (Noel Coward) [morals]
• Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad. (Denis Diderot) [morals/countries/result/government]
• At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world that they contribute something to the sustentation of the whole. (John Donne) [men/conversation/morals/soul & body]
• Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other; given the upper, to find the under side. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [morals//find/find]
• Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them. (Thomas Hardy) [poets/morals/etiquette/argument]
• A man who pretends to understand women is ad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals. (Henry James) [women/etiquette/morals]
• They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master. (Samuel Johnson) [teach/morals/etiquette/dancing]
• Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country. (Karl Kraus) [corruption/prostitution/morals/morals]
• Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals. (H. L. Mencken) [time/morals]
• To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. (Theodore Roosevelt) [mind/morals/society]
• Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners. (Laurence Sterne) [respect/morals/respect/etiquette]
• One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct. (Laurence Sterne) [mind/morals]
• Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly speaking, there are none but corn-pone opinions. And broadly speaking, Corn-Pone stands for Self-Approval. Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people. The result is Conformity. (Mark Twain) [opinion/morals/politics/religion]
• France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country. (Mark Twain) [morals]
• He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals. (Oscar Wilde) [love/morals]
• There's this idea that if you take your clothes off, somehow you must have loose morals. There's still a negative attitude in our society towards women who use a strength that's inherent - their femininity - in any way that might be considered seductive. (Demi Moore) [take/morals/attitude/society]
• In the end it was down to my principles and my morals that I was supposed to stand behind. It was supposed to be girlpower but I wanted real power. My new motto is staying power. (Geri Halliwell) [morals/power/power]
• What's the big deal? I have really strong morals, and just because I look sexy on the cover of Rolling Stone doesn't mean I'm a naughty girl. I'd do it again. I thought the pictures were fine. And I was tired of being compared to Debbie Gibson and all of this bubblegum pop all the time. (Britney Spears) [morals/look/being/time]
• I love it: The push and pull, the constant renegotiating of morals, ethics, what to do, how to live... All of us stuck here together trying to sort it all out. It's fun. It can be, anyway. (Casey Affleck) [love/morals]
• You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters. (John Burns) [morning/etiquette/morals]

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