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"Tut, tut, child," said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral if
only you can find it."
"Tut, tut, child," said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral if
only you can find it."
We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one
of its periodical fits of morality.
We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one
of its periodical fits of morality.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Moralizing and morals are two entirely different things and are always found in entirely different people.
Moralizing and morals are two entirely different things and are always found in entirely different people.
To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed read more
To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.
The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you read more
The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.
We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.
When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a read more
When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble.
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
