immoral quotes

The Colonial Secretary [Iain Macleod] has been too clever by half.Ibelievethat heisavery fine bridgeplayer. It isnot considered immoral, or even bad form, to outwit one's opponent at bridge.It almost seems to me as if the Colonial Secretary, when he abandoned the sphere of bridge for the sphere of politics, brought his bridge technique with him.

-of Salisbury
  Speech, House of Lords. English Conservative statesman and three times Prime Minister (1885^6,1886^92,1895^1902), often serving as his own Foreign Secretary. He remained as head of government during the Boer War (1899^1902), and then retired.

He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which, no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.

-John Galsworthy
  In Chancery, pt.1, ch.13.

   About morals,I know only that what ismoral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

- Ernest Millar Hemingway
  Death in the Afternoon, ch.1.

The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self- sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life.

- Akira Kurosawa
  Something like an  Autobiography.

All art is immoral.

- Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills Wilde
Intentions,'The Critic as Artist'.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

- Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray, preface.

All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral or fattening.

- Alexander Humphreys Woollcott
Quoted in R Drennan Wit's End (1968).