Charlotte Lennox Quotes

One easily bears moral reproof, but never mockery.

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother!

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.

The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.

It is difficult not to write satire.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders.

All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we seeourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.

Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better.

If you really look at my lyrics, nobody's exempt. Nobody's exempt from observation, criticism or what I think is correction.

Anyone can see that intending and not acting when we can is not really intending, and loving and not doing good when we can is not really loving.

Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.

All men of goodwill have this in common - that our works put us to shame.

They that censure, should practice. Or else let them have the first stone, and the last too.

Everyone performs bad actions... A bad person is someone who does not lament his bad actions.

You are wrong, sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death; he should look to this only in his actions, whether what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting like a good or a bad man.

Genius does not excuse evil.

If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox.

Sin is a dangerous toy in the hands of the virtuous. It should be left to the congenitally sinful, who know when to play with it and when to let it alone.

Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.

Where reverence is, there is fear; for he who has a feeling of reverence and shame about the commission of any action, fears and is afraid of an ill reputation.