Character Quote by Jean Stafford Download Open image “Irony, I feel, is a very high form of morality.” — Jean Stafford ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Feel High I feel Irony Morality Very
Irony is a great tool to deal with things. It's an intellectualization, a way to go above things, which can work. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
Morality is the Science of harmonious relations between intelligent beings. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
I don't embrace irony, but I do think it's a pre-existing condition; we manage it as best we can. — Fred Tomaselli Copy Share Image
The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I think morality is so individual and personal, and people draw their own lines of what that means for them. — Jonah Hill Copy Share Image
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
He does what I have always needed to have done to me, and that is that he dominates me. — Jean Stafford Copy Share Image
“I read Wolfe’s new book _ The Story of a Novel_ and as usual he stole the whole damn thing from me. I am… — Jean Stafford Copy Share Image
A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall. — Jean Stafford Copy Share Image
“To her own heart, which was shaped exactly like a valentine, there came a winglike palpitation, a delicate exigency, and all the fragrance of… — Jean Stafford Copy Share Image
“If she ever got fat, she thought, or if she ever said anything fat, she would lock herself in a bathroom and stay there… — Jean Stafford Copy Share Image
“It never occurs to her that she will not be a writer and only occasionally does it occur to her, depressingly, that she is… — Jean Stafford Copy Share Image
From time to time, I need a rest from the exercitation of my intellect. — Jean Stafford Copy Share Image
You say that you hope I will be recognized as the best novelist of my generation. I want you to know now and know… — Jean Stafford Copy Share Image
“He whirled round and round in his rapid love; it pricked him on the breastbone like a needle. He wanted to be shut up… — Jean Stafford Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced to face issues and emotions, feelings, that they have. So it kind of forces them to face it head on, which I think is a really interesting dynamic. And I think it should be interesting and… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
