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Category: Manners and Ethics

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1. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit."

Aristotle

Quotations about: Success and Fame

2. "Don't place question mark in the place where God already place a full stop."

Anon.

Quotations about: God and Religion

3. "Never lose a chance of saying a kind word."

William Makepeace Thackeray

Quotations about: Good and Evil

4. "Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of."

Anon.

Quotations about: Good and Evil

5. "A good compliment is a truth, but presented in a favorable light."

Kazimierz Matan

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

6. "Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible."

Dalai Lama

7. "Relativity applies to physics, not ethics."

Albert Einstein

8. "Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores; once we have left it, we can never return."

Nicolas Boileau

Quotations about: Various

9. "At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, "Bernice Bobs Her Hair"

10. "To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance."

Jean Genet, "The Thief's Journal"

Quotations about: Various

11. "Temptation is the woman's weapon and the man's excuse."

Henry Louis Mencken, "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Quotations about: Sin and Conscience

12. "Patience is something that you admire greatly in the driver behind you but not in the one ahead of you."

Anon.

13. "Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Great Gatsby"

Quotations about: Egoism

14. "Habit is stronger than reason."

George Santayana

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

15. "A man may walk intellectually among the stars and grovel morally among the swine."

John A. O'Brien

16. "Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution."

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Quotations about: Sin and Conscience

17. "Religion, opium for the people. To those suffering pain, humiliation, illness, and serfdom, it promised a reward in an afterlife. And now we are witnessing a transformation. A true opium for the people is a belief in nothingness after death--the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders we are not going to be judged."

Czeslaw Milosz, "Roadside Dog"

Quotations about: Life and Death

18. "Politics is occupational therapy for the morally handicapped."

Charles J. C. Lyall

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

19. "The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry."

Ernest Gellner

20. "Food first, then morality."

Bertolt Brecht, "The Threepenny Opera"

Quotations about: Life and Death

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21. "Morality is contraband in war."

Mahatma Gandhi, "Non-Violence in Peace and War"

Quotations about: Peace and War

22. "If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments."

Zig Ziglar

Quotations about: God and Religion -:- Human

23. "Men give love to get sex, Women give sex to get love."

Anon.

Quotations about: Love

24. "Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus, a Nymph, or any name that may apologize for a lack of decent clothing."

Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Marble Faun"

Quotations about: Art and Culture

25. "Style is the image of character."

Edward Gibbon, "Memoirs of my Life"

26. "We should restore the practice of dueling. It might improve manners around here."

Edward Abbey

27. "Manners are noises you don't make while eating soup."

Anon.

28. "Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society."

Anita Brookner

Quotations about: God and Religion

29. "Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality."

William Hazlitt, "The Complete Works Of William Hazlitt"

Quotations about: Human

30. "Morality and expediency coincide more than the cynics allow."

Roy Hattersley

Quotations about: Various

31. "Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99% of them are wrong."

Henry Louis Mencken, "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Quotations about: Good and Evil

32. "Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go it's one of the best."

Woody Allen

Quotations about: Various

33. "Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything."

Anita Brookner, "Hotel du Lac"

Quotations about: Woman and Man

34. "Love talks and talks. Lust is brief and to the point."

Mason Cooley, "City Aphorisms"

Quotations about: Love -:- Various

35. "He preaches well that lives well."

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, "Don Quixote"

Quotations about: God and Religion

36. "Sex is the thing that takes the least time and causes the most trouble."

John Barrymore

Quotations about: Various

37. "God created Adam and Eve - not Adam and Steve."

Anon.

Quotations about: Human -:- Various

38. "Association with women is the basis of good manners."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Quotations about: Woman and Man

39. "Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress."

William Hazlitt, "The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time"

Quotations about: Beauty and Ugliness

40. "What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike."

Alfred North Whitehead

41. "The etiquette question that troubles so many fastidious people on New Year's Day is: How am I ever going to face those people again?"

Judith Martin (Miss Manners), "Miss Manners Guide to Excruciatingly ..."

Quotations about: Various

42. "The fig leaf which once was put over the secret parts of man and woman in sculpture is now put over the face. The person does not matter."

Fulton John Sheen, "Those Mysterious Priests"

Quotations about: Human

43. "The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums."

Peter De Vries

Quotations about: Various

44. "Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life; it is bad to damage and destroy life."

Albert Schweitzer

Quotations about: Life and Death -:- Good and Evil

45. "Man is not man, but a wolf to those he does not know."

Titus Maccius Plautus, "The Comedy of Asses"

Quotations about: Egoism

46. "Never give a party if you will be the most interesting person there."

Mickey Friedman

Quotations about: Various

47. "Ethics is not about the way things are, it is about the way things ought to be."

Michael Josephson

Quotations about: Good and Evil

48. "Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society."

William Makepeace Thackeray

49. "I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world."

Oscar Wilde

Quotations about: Human

50. "Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress."

Coco Chanel, "Coco Chanel: Her Life, Her Secrets"

Quotations about: Various

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