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 "So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date."

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Quotations about: Various

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

Emma Goldman

Quotations about: Sin and Conscience

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

Edmund Burke

Quotations about: Law and Crime

4. "Style is the man himself."

George-Louis Buffon, Comte De Leclerc

5. "Intolerance is evidence of impotence."

Aleister Crowley

6. "Custom reconciles us to everything."

Edmund Burke

7. "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

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

Bernard Joseph Saurin

Quotations about: Law and Crime

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

Henry Louis Mencken

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

10. "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

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

Italian proverb

Quotations about: Forgiveness

12. "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

13. "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

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

Lewis Thomas

Quotations about: Various

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

Sophocles

Quotations about: Power and Weakness

16. "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

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

Franklin P. Jones

Quotations about: Time and Passing

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

Mignon McLaughin, "The Neurotic’s Notebook"

Quotations about: Various

19. "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

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

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21. "It’s innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn’t."

Mignon McLaughin, "The Neurotic’s Notebook"

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance

22. "Bed is the poor man’s opera."

Italian proverb

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

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

24. "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

25. "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

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

Alexander Woollcott

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol

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

Oscar Wilde

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

James Thurber

Quotations about: Various

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

Abraham Lincoln

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

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

Billy Crystal

31. "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"

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

Michael Kinsley

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

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

John Updike, "Couples"

Quotations about: Richness and Money

34. "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

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

James M. Barrie

Quotations about: Life and Death

36. "Pornography is the theory, and rape the practice."

Robin Morgan, "The Word of a Woman"

37. "Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal."

Lionel Trilling

Quotations about: Art and Culture

38. "It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid."

George Bernard Shaw, "Man and Superman"

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

39. "Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet."

Lewis Mumford, "The Culture of Cities"

Quotations about: Normality and Madness

40. "Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved."

Peter Ustinov

Quotations about: Various

41. "Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation."

George Bernard Shaw, "Man and Superman"

Quotations about: Authority, Government

42. "There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot."

George Bernard Shaw

Quotations about: Sin and Conscience

43. "Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays."

George Bernard Shaw

44. "The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation."

Angela Carter, "The Sadeian Woman"

45. "Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact."

Marlene Dietrich, "Marlene Dietrich's ABC"

Quotations about: History and Nations

46. "I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together."

Charles Dickens

Quotations about: History and Nations

47. "Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn."

George Bernard Shaw, "Back to Methuselah"

Quotations about: Oration and Silence

48. "The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is."

George Bernard Shaw, "Man and Superman"

49. "Laughter is the closest distance between two people."

Victor Borge

Quotations about: Various

50. "Englishwomen’s shoes look as if they had been made by someone who had often heard shoes described, but had never seen any."

Margaret Halsey, "With Malice Toward Some"

Quotations about: Various

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