
On Moore’s Life of Lord Byron (1830)
On the expenses scandal in the UK.
Quoted in Pink News http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-12560.html
This is a variation on a line from Lord Macaulay's 'On Moore's Life of Lord Byron' (1830): 'We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.'
2000s
On Moore’s Life of Lord Byron (1830)
“Morality after the fact is worse than no morality at all.”
Source: The Book of Skulls (1972), Chapter 7 (p. 25)
“For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and, again, nothing worse than a bad one.”
Source: Works and Days (c. 700 BC), line 702.
“Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. And few ideas are worse than the ones we have about art.”
The Artist's Way (1992), p. xxv
“There is nothing worse than an enemy with imagination.”