“It may often be noticed, the less virtuous people are, the more they shrink away from the slightest whiff of the odour of un-sanctity. The good are ever the most charitable, the pure are the most brave.”

— Dinah Craik

Source: A Woman's Thoughts About Women (1858), Ch. 11

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Dinah Craik 61

English novelist and poet 1826–1887

George Stigler (1911–1991) American economist

Memoirs of an Unregulated Economist (1988), Prologue: Are Economists Good People?

“Have you ever noticed how parents can go from the most wonderful people in the world to totally embarrassing in three seconds?”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

“Men dissimulate their dearest, most constant, and most virtuous inclination from weakness and a fear of being condemned.”

Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715–1747) French writer, a moralist

Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 184.

“It's so funny that people think I actually ran for President. I am maybe the most un-political person you're ever going to meet.”

Alice Cooper (1948) American rock singer, songwriter and musician

Kingsnake podcast interview http://club.kingsnake.com/index.php?/archives/66-Podcast-Interview-with-Alice-Cooper.html (26 May 2006).
Context: It's so funny that people think I actually ran for President. I am maybe the most un-political person you're ever going to meet. When I put "Elected" out, it was definitely a satire... "Alice Cooper for President"... when everybody realized I was running against Nixon, you known, even on a joke level, I think I got a lot of write-in votes.

“Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?”

E.M. Forster book A Room with a View

Variant: No, he is not tactful, yet have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet, at the same time, beautiful?
Source: A Room with a View