Charles Baudelaire Quotes

We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

I read the Bible, I speak through issues, I see what I think is hypocrisy in the church and things that are wrong, and I speak to these things. But I could be wrong.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

What, pray, does it profit a man to teach others, and to be prating always about virtue, in high-sounding words, if he fails to give heed to his own instructions?

We're all hypocrites. We all say one thing and do another. But why don't we try to do what we say more than what we don't?

It's fine to criticize somebody else's crimes and misdeeds, but you don't talk about your own. The only exception is a country that is defeated. And even that is rather nuanced.

I consider myself a fairly ethical individual while I do have a lot of dichotomies within me. We're all victims of our own hypocrisy at times.

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.

I fear that many a man's good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

I'm not perfect in my walk but I want to do the right thing.

My conscience is clear.

Either you look back and deal with your hypocrisy, or you dismiss it.

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

Whenever you do a thing, tho' it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you and act accordingly.

My power for good, whatever it may, would be gone if I didn’t try to live up to the doctrines I have tried to preach.

None are so ready to find fault with others as those who do things worthy of blame themselves.

If there were a being in the world whose eyes could look into other people's hearts, very few men or women would be able to face up to it.

My conscience is clean.

At times, it appears easy to sermonise on morality and ethics. But morality and ethics appear good only when applied to others, never on oneself.

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

I'm not Mother Teresa. But I'm not Frank Bough, either. I am getting older and a bit more sensible. I'm not going to be popping up in dungeons every six months. If you catch me preaching fidelity while I am shagging chickens then throw the book at me. Otherwise, leave me alone.

I'm pretty good at taking accountability now, and I never did anything to deserve that. It was a really lousy thing for her to do.

Before thou reprehend another, take heed thou art not culpable in what thou goest about to reprehend. He that cleanses a blot with blotted fingers makes a greater blur.