Quotes about Morality

We all must try to be good.

If we could only learn to look on evil as evil, whether it's clothed in filth or monotony or magnificence.

Until the great mobs could be educated into a moral sense, someone must cry: Thou shalt not!

It made no difference to me. Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply.

It's essentially cleaner to be corrupt and rich than it is to be innocent and poor.

I was adept at fooling the deity. I prayed immediately after all crimes until eventually prayer and crime became indistinguishable to me.

In the foreground four solemn men in dress suits are walking along the sidewalk with a stretcher on which lies a drunken woman in a white evening dress. Her hand, which dangles over the side, sparkles cold with jewels. Gravely the men turn in at a house - the wrong house. But no one knows the woman's name, and no one cares.

Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply—I was casually sorry, and then I forgot.

I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife. Well, if that's the idea you can count me out.

If one can't be a great artist or a great soldier, the next best thing is to be a great criminal.

Charley was twenty-six, with that faint musk of weakness hanging about him that is often mistaken for the scent of evil.

You say that convention is all that really keeps you straight in this "woman proposition"; but it's more than that, Amory; it's the fear that what you begin you can't stop; you would run amuck, and I know whereof I speak; it's that half-miraculous sixth sense by which you detect evil, it's the half-realized fear of God in your heart.