Quote

But all morality is of necessity shaped by context. I'm not talking relativism, no. To ignore the context of a decision is in fact immoral.

Anne Rice

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Anne Rice
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 4
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New Orleans
Louisiana
Anne O'Brien
A. N. Roquelaure
Anne Rampling
Howard Allen O'Brien
Howard Allen Frances O'Brien
Context
Ignore
Necessity
Morality
Decision
Talking
Relativism
Fact
Shaped
Facts
Immoral

More quotes by Anne Rice

Image
The worst takes its time to come, and then to pass.
Anne Rice
Image
Should we put out the light? And then put out the light. But once put out thy light, I cannot give it vital breath again. It needs must wither.
Anne Rice
Image
Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.
Anne Rice
Image
What is written beneath this heavy handsome book cover will count, so sayeth this cover.
Anne Rice
Image
Some mysteries are simply irresistible,” she said. “They have components that alter a life.
Anne Rice
Image
My greatest sin has always been that I have a wonderful time being myself
Anne Rice
Image
The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that and maybe sleeping beauty's dead.
Anne Rice
Image
when we are weary, we speak lovingly of dreams as if they embodied our true deisres-What we WOULD have when that which we DO have so sorely disappoints us
Anne Rice
Image
There are too many other inexplicable things around us--horrors, threats, mysteries that draw you in and then inevitably disenchant you. Back to the predictable and humdrum. The prince is never going to come, everybody knows that and maybe Sleeping Beauty's dead.
Anne Rice
Image
One will hate you for taking his life, another will run to excesses that you scorn. A third will emerge mad and raving, another a monster you cannot control. One will be jealous of your superiority, another shut you out... And the veil will always come down between you Make a legion, you will be, always and forever alone!
Anne Rice
Image
And what if I never go of my own free will? Will you pitch me from some window so that I must fly or fall? Will you bolt all shutters after me? You had better, because I'll knock and knock and knock until I fall down dead. I'll have no wings that take me away from you.
Anne Rice
Image
Every moment must be first known and then savored.
Anne Rice
Image
Would that death were like this. Would that one would sleep and sleep and sleep forever.
Anne Rice
Image
I have to move away from organized religion. The toxic confusion and anger I was feeling in church had become too great.
Anne Rice
Image
I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.
Anne Rice
Image
If I am an angel, paint me with black wings.
Anne Rice
Image
He had never expected death to be this quiet, this secretive, this easy.
Anne Rice
Image
Everyone is a potential naked slave to you once you become a trainer.
Anne Rice
Image
You're a perfect devil, Lestat! he was saying. That's what you are! You are the devil himself!
Anne Rice
Image
Whipping is fifty percent show and noise.
Anne Rice