| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 31024 |
| QUOTATION: | Conscience was the barmaid of the Victorian soul. Recognizing that human beings were fallible and that their failings, though regrettable, must be humoured, conscience would permit, rather ungraciously perhaps, the indulgence of a number of carefully selected desires. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | C.E.M. (Cyril Edwin Mitchinson) Joad (1891–1953), British author, academic. “Morals and My Lack of Them,” ch. 11, The Book of Joad (1899). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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