Quotes About Integrity

The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of them told me himself; for even upstanding and respectable people dearly love to read ill of others.

Your friend is intellectually honourable, Jimmy's mother would say. He doesn't lie to himself.

But sins must not be overlooked simply because the sinner is skilled.

According to Tobias, women hang around longer because they're less capable of indignation and better at being humiliated, for what is old age but one long string of indignities? What person of integrity would put up with it?

Had he been a lunatic or an intellectually honourable man who'd thought things through to their logical conclusion? And was there any difference?

What good is it to throw yourself in front of a steamroller out of moral principles and then be crushed flat like a sock emptied of its foot?

By the time he got around to meaning it, the words had sounded fraudulent to him and he'd been afraid to pronounce them.

Miranda nods, because she knows that to be true: noble people don't do things for the money, they simply have money, and that's what allows them to be noble. They don't really have to think about it much; they sprout benevolent acts the way trees sprout leaves.

I love you. You're the only one. She isn't the first woman he's ever said that to. He shouldn't have used it up so much earlier in his life, he shouldn't have treated it like a tool, a wedge, a key to open women. By the time he got around to meaning it, the words had sounded fraudulent to him and he'd been ashamed to pronounce them.

Is extreme goodness always weak? Can a person be good only in the absence of power? The Tempest asks us these questions. There is of course another kind of strength, which is the strength of goodness to resist evil; a strength that Shakespeare's audience would have understood well. But that kind of strength is not much on display in The Tempest. Gonzalo is simply not tempted. He doesn't have to say no to a sinfully rich dessert, because he's never offered one.

You shouldn't have forged my handwriting," I said to Laura privately. "I couldn't forge Richard's. It's too different from ours. Yours was a lot easier." "Handwriting is a personal thing. It's like stealing.

Az igazságot egyetlen módon lehet csak megírni: ha feltételezzük, hogy amit megírtunk, soha nem fogja elolvasni senki, Se más, se mi magunk valamikor késÅ'bb. Különben csak mentegeti magát az ember.

Never trust a man with new clothes.

La grandeza está en la virtud, no en la venganza

He just tarted up his misdemeanours and made them look respectable

There must be a certain freedom in not having a good name to lose.

You yourself would never have done such things! But you yourself will never have had to.

Ed, knows power corrupts, they'll have experienced that first-hand. They'll see how I'd be tempted to use my own power for personal reasons. They may not approve of that, but they'll buy

Everyone likes to think they are doing good while at the same time pocketing a bag of cash

discretion is the better part of valour

Unlike Laura, I have never had the courage of my convictions.

Now young lady,' he said to me, 'I'm not going to chastize you personally because I can see you are a nice girl and only the innocent means to this abominable end. But you will be so kind as to give these tracts to your employers. Who can tell but that their hearts may yet be softened? The propagation of drink and of drunkenness to excess is an iniquity, a sin against the Lord.

she's a ho in sheep's clothing, and it's about time she told the truth, the ho truth, and nothing but the truth.

When actions do not square with words, trust the actions. Choose what you see people do, not what you imagine they would like to do.