Quotes about Morality
Honor is like a match, you can only use it once.
— Marcel Pagnol
How goodness heightens beauty!
— Milan Kundera
And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed.
— Graham Greene
He knew now that at the end there was only one thing that counted - to be a saint.
— Graham Greene
Lust is not the worst thing. It is because any day, any time, lust may turn into love that we have to avoid it. And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed.
— Graham Greene
Regret your own actions, if you like that kind of wallowing in self-pity, but never, never despise. Never presume yours is a better morality.
— Graham Greene
Oh, it's not done,' I said, 'but neither is adultery or theft or running away from the enemy's fire. The not done things are done every day, Henry. It's part of modern life. I've done most of them myself.
— Graham Greene
His lips felt dry with a literal thirst for righteousness, which was like a glass of ice-cold water on a table in another man's room.
— Graham Greene
It is astonishing the sense of innocence that goes with sin--only the hard and careful man and the saint are free of it.
— Graham Greene
What's the good? he'll always be innocent, you can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
— Graham Greene
Innocence must die young if it isn't to kill the souls of men
— Graham Greene
There was not much one could do; he decided at least to be good.
— Graham Greene