Quotes About Integrity

Sometimes the truth, told right, was the best lie.

Sanchez has always heard he's a good cop, maybe even a decent man. The latter's more common than the former; power breeds abuse.

If you're stupid enough to sleep with your superior, you'd best be smart enough to use whatever you have left.

Sweet death in a vacuum, why can't anybody be uncomplicatedly evil in real life? Or uncomplicatedly good? Why are we all such a twist of good and bad decisions, selfishness and self-justification, altruism and desire?

Punishing Benedick because she didn't like his honest answers got them no closer to healing.

No. He would. He would not repudiate Kit, on his deathbed for any reason.

I took an oath. If it is not inviolable, then I am useless. If I am not inviolate, the magic is not inviolate.

Sorry doesn't cut it in my world. Pay me back, or get the hell out of my life.

He tried to feel the meaning of the words, speak them with passion nonetheless. If this was what he was inspired to, then he would not believe he had been inspired wrong. And it wrong to simply intone the Scholar-God's arguments. They must be…internalized. Considered. Spoken as if they lived and breathed and were each day argued anew, not as if they lay dead and dusty in some tomb.

It takes more than blood and iron to wound me.

I wondered if it had eaten a suspect. If I had, I hoped the suspect deserved it. It seemed like a good cop, as such things went, and I'd hate to think less of it.

Moral compromises don't stop happening even when everyone involved is trying to do the right thing.

It is perilous to admit weakness. It is even more perilous to lie to dragons.

Everybody seemed to think I would sell out anything, in order to gain a little physical comfort.

She knew where he was going, but she wasn't going to give him an inch that he didn't earn.

Admit nothing. An iron dignity is an unbroachable defense.

Never be afraid of doing the thing you know in your heart is right, even if others don't agree.

Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.

Ever since that evening when you gave me my hat, I've been as true to you as I've got it in me to be. Don't force me to where untruth starts. You say nothing would make you hate me. But once make me hate myself and you'd make me hate you.

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.

If her own situation was a cup of poison, then she should drink from it herself and not expect Isabel to sip.

Was honour the same as conscience? If not, how did one choose between them? And was the choice, when made, bitter as gall?

Not all that is plain is dross

Let your deeds be your bond, not your promises and cajolery.