Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret. —Mary McCarthy More about this quote Tags: action knowledge morality regret bad good Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations from Mary McCarthy The worst thing that can happen to a writer is to become a Writer. —Mary McCarthy More about this quote Tags: writing misfortune Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story. —Mary McCarthy More about this quote Tags: heroism anticipation suspense Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished equation. —Mary McCarthy More about this quote Tags: justice society Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email How many women, she wondered, had poisoned their husbands, not for gain or for another man, but out of sheer inability to leave them. The extreme solution is always the simplest. The weed killer is in the soup; the man is in his coffin. . . . Murder is more civilized than divorce; the Victorians, as usual, were wiser. —Mary McCarthy More about this quote Tags: divorce murder Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The worst thing that can happen to a writer is to become a Writer. —Mary McCarthy More about this quote Tags: writing misfortune Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story. —Mary McCarthy More about this quote Tags: heroism anticipation suspense Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished equation. —Mary McCarthy More about this quote Tags: justice society Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
How many women, she wondered, had poisoned their husbands, not for gain or for another man, but out of sheer inability to leave them. The extreme solution is always the simplest. The weed killer is in the soup; the man is in his coffin. . . . Murder is more civilized than divorce; the Victorians, as usual, were wiser. —Mary McCarthy More about this quote Tags: divorce murder Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “good” Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will. —John Kenneth Galbraith More about this quote Tags: humor bad good standards Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all. —Anna Quindlen More about this quote Tags: feeling success good Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. —Baltasar Gracián More about this quote Tags: life friendship evil good Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email He who stops being better stops being good. —Oliver Cromwell More about this quote Tags: good aspiration better Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. —Steven Weinberg More about this quote Tags: religion evil good Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will. —John Kenneth Galbraith More about this quote Tags: humor bad good standards Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all. —Anna Quindlen More about this quote Tags: feeling success good Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. —Baltasar Gracián More about this quote Tags: life friendship evil good Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
He who stops being better stops being good. —Oliver Cromwell More about this quote Tags: good aspiration better Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. —Steven Weinberg More about this quote Tags: religion evil good Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email