morals

Les mouvements les plus naturels, et les plus ordinaires, sont ceux qui se font le moins sentir; cela est vrai jusque dans la morale. Le mouvement de l'amour-propre nous est si naturel que, le plus souvent, nous ne le sentons pas. The most natural and ordinary movements are those which are the least felt; this is also true in morals.Pride is so natural to us that, most often, we never feel it.

—Fontenelle, Bernard le Bovier de

Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.

—Murray, Les(lie Allan)

   She was neither clear-sighted nor accurate; and in her attempts to describe morals, manners, and even facts, was unable to avoid the pitfalls of exaggeration.

—Trollope, Anthony

   Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral. Food comes first, then morals.

—Brecht, Bertolt Eugen Friedrich

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation. See Hutcheson 424:52.

—Bentham,Jeremy

The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to producethe reverse of happiness.

—Mill,John Stuart

Sportsmanship, next to the Church, is the greatest teacher of morals.

—Hoover, Herbert Clark

'Have you no morals, man?' 'Can't afford them,Governor.'

—Shaw, George Bernard

   Les vices, les abus, voila'   ce qui ne change point, mais se de¤  guise en mille formes sous le masque des moeurs dominantes: leur arracher ce masque et les montrer a' de¤  couvert, telle est la noble ta"  che de l'homme qui se voue au the¤  a"  tre. Vices, indulgences, these are the things which never change but which disguise themselves in a thousand forms beneath the mask of prevailing morals: to lift off this mask and expose them, this is the noble taskof the person who devotes himself to the theatre.

—Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de

What we call morals is simply blind obedience to words of command.

—Ellis, Havelock

The morals of a baboon and the guts of a butterfly.

—Capote,Truman

They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master.

—Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson

O tempora, o mores! What times! what morals!

—Cicero full name MarcusTullius Cicero