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1. "Orgies are an early form of what will someday become sex by committee."

Mason Cooley

Quotations about: Various

2. "The art of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters."

Gloria Steinem

3. "To give a man full knowledge of true morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament."

John Locke

Quotations about: God and Religion

4. "To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society."

Eleanor Roosevelt

Quotations about: Education

5. "Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales."

Aleister Crowley, "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley"

6. "No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up."

Lily Tomlin

Quotations about: Various

7. "Valor is common but great souls are rare."

Bernard Joseph Saurin, "Spartacus"

Quotations about: Various

8. "The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them."

Will Rogers

Quotations about: Various

9. "What most men desire is a virgin who is a whore."

Edward Dahlberg, "Reasons of the Heart"

Quotations about: Dreams and Desires -:- Woman and Man

10. "Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin."

Quentin Crisp, "Manners from Heaven"

11. "Ethics are so annoying. I avoid them on principle."

Darby Conley

12. "We first make our habits, and then our habits make us."

John Dryden

Quotations about: Human

13. "Manners are love in a cool climate."

Quentin Crisp, "Manners from Heaven"

Quotations about: Love

14. "Love is the answer - but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions."

Woody Allen

Quotations about: Love

15. "Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions."

Coco Chanel

Quotations about: Various

16. "So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date."

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Quotations about: Various

17. "The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought."

Emma Goldman

Quotations about: Sin and Conscience

18. "Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver."

Edmund Burke

Quotations about: Law and Crime

19. "Style is the man himself."

George-Louis Buffon, Comte De Leclerc

20. "Intolerance is evidence of impotence."

Aleister Crowley

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21. "Custom reconciles us to everything."

Edmund Burke

22. "Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace."

Anthony Burgess

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

23. "The law often allows what honor forbids."

Bernard Joseph Saurin

Quotations about: Law and Crime

24. "Time is a great legalizer, even in the field of morals."

Henry Louis Mencken

Quotations about: Law and Crime -:- Time and Passing

25. "There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist."

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, "Aphorisms"

Quotations about: God and Religion

26. "Revenge is the most sincere form of forgiveness."

Italian proverb

Quotations about: Forgiveness

27. "We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise."

Terry Hands

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes -:- History and Nations

28. "The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women."

Karl Kraus, "Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths"

Quotations about: Woman and Man

29. "The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand."

Lewis Thomas

Quotations about: Various

30. "Opinions have greater power than strength of hands."

Sophocles

Quotations about: Power and Weakness

31. "Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Conduct of Life"

Quotations about: Human

32. "The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it."

Franklin P. Jones

Quotations about: Time and Passing

33. "Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers."

Mignon McLaughin, "The Neurotic's Notebook"

Quotations about: Various

34. "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, "Selected Writings"

Quotations about: Good and Evil

35. "Fashion is something that goes in one year and out the other."

Anon.

36. "It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't."

Mignon McLaughin, "The Neurotic's Notebook"

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance

37. "Bed is the poor man's opera."

Italian proverb

38. "In morality, man treats himself not as individuum but as dividuum."

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

39. "For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do-they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities."

John Updike

Quotations about: Woman and Man

40. "Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman.... It is only man’s egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities."

Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch, "Venus in Furs"

Quotations about: Woman and Man -:- Love

41. "All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal, or fattening."

Alexander Woollcott

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

42. "It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."

Oscar Wilde

43. "The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms - hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal."

James Thurber

Quotations about: Various

44. "If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"

Abraham Lincoln

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

45. "Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place."

Billy Crystal

46. "Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us."

Jane Austen, "Pride and Prejudice"

47. "A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth."

Michael Kinsley

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

48. "Sex is like money; only too much is enough."

John Updike, "Couples"

Quotations about: Richness and Money

49. "To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination."

George Jean Nathan

Quotations about: Art and Culture

50. "Life is a long lesson in humility."

James M. Barrie

Quotations about: Life and Death

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