Quotes about Morals

Education and morals will be found almost the whole that goes to make a good man.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

The age was the Elizabethan; their morals were not ours; nor their poets; nor their climate; nor their vegetables even. Everything was different. The weather itself, the heat and cold of summer and winter, was, we may believe, of another temper altogether.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners

Let people know what you stand for and what you won't stand for.

Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its opinion, the highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef.

My dear boy... anybody can be good in the country.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

There was no way we'd ever get spoiled. Daddy made sure to instill in us a work ethic.

He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.

Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

But, to the philosopher, my dear Gerald, women represent the triumph of matter over mind - just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.