It's the principle of the matter...
Anyone who says "it's the principle of the matter" is probably in the process of being incredibly rude to someone who has little control of the current situation, or is attempting to justify something they've just done, that they know is wrong.
Discuss.
Discuss.
Al Capp (1909 - 1979)
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
Alfred Adler (1870 - 1937)
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976)
When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it into practice.
Otto von Bismarck (1815 - 1898)
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.
Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, 1966
...I don't have any words for myself this time.
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