Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Jacobs

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

Carl Jung

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

David Hume

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.

Alfred Hershey

Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words.

Anthony Hopkins

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

Cornelia Funke

Everything gets to me. I'm very sentimental.

Ann Patchett

I'm very sentimental about lobsters. The last lobster I ate was the only lobster I cooked.

Krist Novoselic

Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me.

Irving Babbitt

According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.

Bob Davis

We're having an ethics session in the first place because of these folks that got in trouble.

Bertrand Russell

Science, by itself cannot, supply us with an ethic.

Arthur Keith

My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.

William Shakespeare

Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time in you?

Edith Sitwell

It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.

Jennifer Crider

Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has never been a party to an ethics truce and has always said that individual members have the right to file a complaint.

Aristotle

For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that it apprehends are the highest things that can be known), and also it is the most continuous, because we are more capable of continuous contemplation than we are of any practical activity.

Chris Bell

Rick Perry is taking his ethics lessons from Tom DeLay.

Bill Swisher

I can learn about a client's ethics by watching how he handles shooting over a limit or not.

Alan Chadwick

Patience is not a virtue!

William Shakespeare

If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not.

William Shakespeare

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

Edmund Burke

That cardinal virtue, temperance.

Edmund Burke

All virtue which is impracticable is spurious.

Archibald Alexander

Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain, in respect to ourselves, to our fellowmen, and to God, as known from reason, conscience, and revelation.

Juvenal

Virtue is the only and true nobility. [Lat., Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.]

Juvenal

So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue.

Bertolt Brecht

Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.