Moralist Quotes
Moralist Quote of the day
The desperate addict is closer to the heart of grace than the devout moralist.
Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because he is a man.
The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile.
Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.
A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth.
Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist - but then what isn't?
As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
The greatest historian should also be a great moralist. It is no proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness on the same level.
The moralist must praise heroism and condemn cruelty; but the moralist does not explain events.
I am too much a moralist at heart, and really want to preach at people in some acceptable form, rather than entertain them.
Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
When you invite a middle-aged moralist to address you, I suppose I must conclude that you have a taste for middle-aged moralizing.
any mystery writer is both magician and moralist ... two species of artist in short supply.
Conscience is a great moralist inside us with a stick in its hand. It is a whip of virtue which oppresses us unmercifully when we do wrong.
Some moralist or mythological poet Compares the solitary soul to a swan; I am satisfied with that, Satisfied if a troubled mirror show it, Before that brief gleam of its life be gone.
If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his own relations.
Admiration is one of the most bewitching, enthusiastic passions of the mind; and every common moralist knows that it arises from novelty and surprise, the inseparable attendants of imposture.
