Dost thou think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale?
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The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary.
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Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.
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Ah! How neatly tied, in these people, is the umbilical cord of morality! Since they left their mothers they have never sinned, have they? They are apostles, they are the descendants of priests; one can only wonder from what source they draw their indignation, and above all how much they have pocketed to do this, and in any case what it has done for them.
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A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain.
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Much Ado About Nothing,
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How excellent it is to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use like a giant.
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...O brave new world, That has such people in't!
O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't!-Miranda Act V, scene i -
Compound for sins they are inclined to by damning those they have no mind to.
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I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.
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Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth -- well, it's like brown -- it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.
