Quotes About Morality

Why do villains have so much influence? Because the honest people are terribly dense.

Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.

Honesty is the mother of confidence; it unites, combines and solidifies society. Dishonesty is disintegration; it destroys confidence; it brings social chaos. . . .

Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with honesty?

The humble sinner will sometimes be interpreted as one of the filthiest in the eyes of man yet immersed in the eyes of God, and this is due to the volition of honesty regarding his own corruption.

If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth.

Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom; but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves.

Honesty is good sense, politeness, amiableness,--all in one.

That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty.

If either wealth or poverty are come by honesty, there is no shame.

People value honesty. They value integrity. They value competence and courage and all those kinds of things.

[Islam] inspires countless individuals to lead lives of honesty, integrity, and morality.

Between a fellow who is stupid and honest and one who is smart and crooked, I will take the first. I won't get much out of him, but with that other guy I can't keep what I've got.

If there is one thing golf demands above all else, it is honesty.

It is often hard to determine whether a clear, open, and honorable proceeding is the result of goodness or of cunning.

Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues.

No one has any license to brag because he is honest. That should be natural instinct and, besides, if you are not, they put you in jail. Honesty is merely a form of insurance.

What's the news? None, my lord, but that the world's grown honest, Then is doomsday near.

What is more arrogant than honesty?

We may argue eloquently that 'Honesty is the best Policy' - unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously ceases to be honesty.

I have tried if I could reach that great resolution . . . to be honest without a thought of Heaven or Hell.

It's honest to admit you'll kill someone because you hate them.

fishing teaches a stern morality; inculcates a remorseless honesty.

Dishonesty is a forsaking of permanent for temporary advantages.