
“When men do wrong, it is out of hardness; when women do wrong, it is out of weakness.”
Bk. 6, ch. 3
Corinne (1807)
“When men do wrong, it is out of hardness; when women do wrong, it is out of weakness.”
Bk. 6, ch. 3
Corinne (1807)
“It is when people do wrong things wilfully that they are the more likely to do them again.”
Source: The Princess and the Goblin
Presumably a paraphrase of "A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct" or of "Hunting for sport is an improvement ..." above.
Unlikely to be by Leopold, who knew that ethics involves not only doing the right thing, but also determining the right thing in the face of competing desirable criteria.
Misattributed
“When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.”
Source: A Woman of No Importance
“Hard to say what's right when all I wanna do is wrong.”