Manners and Ethics

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

Terry Hands

Defeates and Mistakes

History and Nations

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

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

Manners and Ethics

Woman and Man

Rating: 6.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Lewis Thomas

Manners and Ethics

Various

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Opinions have greater power than strength of hands."

Sophocles

Manners and Ethics

Power and Weakness

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Conduct of Life"

Human

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Franklin P. Jones

Manners and Ethics

Time and Passing

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Mignon McLaughin "The Neurotic's Notebook"

Manners and Ethics

Various

Rating: 3.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"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"

Good and Evil

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Click if you know the author

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

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

Mignon McLaughin "The Neurotic's Notebook"

Knowledge, Ignorance

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 6.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Bed is the poor man's opera."

Italian Proverbs

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 4.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"If God lived on earth, people would break his windows."

Jewish Proverbs

God and Religion

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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

Manners and Ethics

Woman and Man

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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."

Sacher-Masoch-Leopold-Von "Venus in Furs"

Love

Manners and Ethics

Woman and Man

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

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

Alexander Woollcott

Health and Alcohol

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Oscar Wilde

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

James Thurber

Manners and Ethics

Various

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Abraham Lincoln

Manners and Ethics

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Billy Crystal

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"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"

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 4.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Michael Kinsley

Manners and Ethics

Politics and Diplomacy

Rating: 3.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

John Updike "Couples"

Manners and Ethics

Richness and Money

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

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

George Jean Nathan

Art and Culture

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Life is a long lesson in humility."

James M. Barrie

Life and Death

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 5.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Robin Morgan "The Word of a Woman"

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal."

Lionel Trilling

Art and Culture

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

George Bernard Shaw "Man and Superman"

Manners and Ethics

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 5.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"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"

Manners and Ethics

Normality and Madness

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"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

Manners and Ethics

Various

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

George Bernard Shaw "Man and Superman"

Authority, Government

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

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

George Bernard Shaw

Manners and Ethics

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 5.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Angela Carter "The Sadeian Woman"

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Marlene Dietrich "Marlene Dietrich's ABC"

History and Nations

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Charles Dickens

History and Nations

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn."

George Bernard Shaw "Back to Methuselah"

Manners and Ethics

Oration and Silence

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

George Bernard Shaw "Man and Superman"

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 6.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Laughter is the closest distance between two people."

Victor Borge

Manners and Ethics

Various

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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"

Manners and Ethics

Various

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The essential function of art is moral. [...] But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind."

David Herbert Lawrence

Art and Culture

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others."

Sir Henry Taylor "The Statesman"

Manners and Ethics

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions."

Martin Amis "Novelists in Interview"

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 5.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!"

Aldous Huxley "Aphorisms and Reflections"

Education

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"We must never confuse elegance with snobbery."

Yves Saint Laurent

Manners and Ethics

Various

Rating: 6.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it."

Denis Diderot

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers."

William Somerset Maugham "A Writer's Notebook"

Intellect, Judgement

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say."

Cyril Connolly

Courage and Fear

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 3.25 (Number of Voters: 4)