Immorality Quotes

Quotations list about immorality, adultery and amorality citing Jean Anouilh, Henry Fielding and Malcolm Bradbury

  • The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

    — Jean Anouilh
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  • Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

    — Henry Fielding
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  • I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.

    — Malcolm Bradbury
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  • The new so called morality has too often the old immorality condoned.

    — Lord Shawcross
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  • The essence of all immorality and sin is making ourselves the center around which we subordinate all interest.

    — Cecil J. Sharpe
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  • I have found it; I have discovered the cause of all the misfortunes which befell him. A public school, Joseph, was the cause of all the calamities which he afterwards suffered. Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

    — Henry Fielding
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  • Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or suffered from diabetes. Madness, in fact, is a medical term that can claim no more notice from the objective critic than he grants the charge of heresy raised by the theologian, or the charge of immorality raised by the police.

    — James Joyce
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  • The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

    — Jane Addams
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  • However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.

    — Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
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  • The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

    — Karl Kraus
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  • There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.

    — Oscar Wilde
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  • Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy.

    His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and constitutional invalid.

    — George Santayana
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  • Related Topics

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  • The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.

    — Oscar Wilde
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  • What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.

    — Alfred North Whitehead
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  • But do not let immorality or any impurity or greed even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Ephesians 5:3

    — Bible
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  • Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet. This is no small contribution.

    — Judith Martin
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  • This point seems counter-intuitive, given the amount of conspicuous vulgarity, vice, and immorality in America. Indeed some Islamic fundamentalists argue that their regimes are morally superior to the United States because they seek to foster virtue among the citizens.

    — Dinesh D'Souza
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  • Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

    — H. L. Mencken
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  • Chaperons don't enforce morality; they force immorality to be discreet.

    — Judith Martin
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  • What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.

    — Alfred North Whitehead
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  • People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers.

    It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.

    — Cal Thomas
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  • When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country.

    — Noah Webster
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  • Fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens.

    They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create.

    — David McCallum
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  • Regardless of what society says, we can't go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.

    — Billy Graham
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  • The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality.

    On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.

    — D. H. Lawrence
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  • To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

    — Friedrich Nietzsche
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