Portia de Rossi Quotes

You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.

In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.

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

Good people do bad things.

The comic spirit masquerades in all things we say and do. We are each a clown and do not need to put on a white face.

Do what you know is right, but try not to get caught.

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

We live in a world where everyone thinks they do the right thing, so they are entitled to do the wrong thing. So ends can justify the means.

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

Fear is the mother of morality.

People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.

Stealing, you'll go far in life. Actually, there is something funny about getting away with it.

To me, comedy is a game.

A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.

My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

It's okay to lie as long as you reach a higher truth doing it.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

I find that people... very few people think that what they're doing is bad, and usually the people who think what they're doing is bad it has more to do with guilt.

Hypocrisy is great fodder for comedy.

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.