Moralists Comment Quotes

#1. Any stupid remark, quoted often enough, becomes gospel.

Leslie Charteris

#2. To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right.

Heraclitus

#3. I will try not to panic, to keep my standard of living modest and to work steadily, even shyly, in the spirit of those medieval carvers who so fondly sculpted the undersides of choir seats.

John Updike

#4. I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices - made up of likings and dislikings.

Charles Lamb

#5. I want you to know, Ruth, that it was impossible to survive our time without doing wrong. It was an evil age. If we had lived in a better time, then we would have been better people.

Matthew De Abaitua

#6. Marie Calloway has a very specific literary personality that the reader is intrigued by: she's masochistic, loves to experiment, is quickly bored and intermittently self-hating, very hip, rebellious. Figuring her out is a gripping adventure.

Edmund White

#7. Those who look for the beauties in the extraordinary things will miss the beauties in the ordinary things!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#8. You may not realize it, but your life has the potential to bless everyone you encounter.

Richard Blackaby

#9. Talent like Michael's is rare. I feel so privileged to have known him and so look forward to honouring his memory in what is going to be the biggest and only tribute to this great showman.

Gladys Knight

#10. It is easy to understand why the rabble dislike cats. A cat is beautiful; it suggests ideas of luxury, cleanliness, voluptuous pleasures.

Charles Baudelaire

#11. Time to grow up. Time to stop bawling. Time to do SOMETHING. And that means, if I'm not sleeping, my nerd-herd isn't sleeping either-sun or no sun.

P.C. Cast

#12. [...] god's cowardly, it doesn't want to know or take responsibility for what it's doing.

Steve Aylett

#13. Maybe," she said to Pauline, not looking at her, just turning her head a bit to speak to her from across the aisle and over her shoulder. Not whispering either. "Maybe it was just the wind.

Alice McDermott