Quotes About Integrity

An honest man in politics shines more there than he would elsewhere. - A Tramp Abroad

I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.

Well, then, says I, what's the use you learning to do right when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same? I was stuck. I couldn't answer that. So I reckoned I wouldn't bother no more about it, but after this always do whichever come handiest at the time.

After much reflection—suppose it was a lie? What then? Was it such a great matter? Aren't we always acting lies? Then why not tell them?

No fact is more firmly established than that lying is a necessity of our circumstances--the deduction that it is then a Virtue goes without saying. No virtue can reach its highest usefulness without careful and diligent cultivation--therefore, it goes without saying that this one ought to be taught in the public schools--even in the newspapers. What chance has the ignorant uncultivated liar against the educated expert?

It was a new business to me, and I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says: "Yes; the little ones does.

All right, then, I'll go to hell"—and tore it up.

You're never wrong to do the right thing.- Ben, The Intern. Mark Twain may have said it first

or else it wouldn't be truthful and square for the others.

Well, then, says I, what's the use you learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?

I don't mind what the opposition say of me so long as they don't tell the truth about me. But when they descend to telling the truth about me I consider that this is taking an unfair advantage.

It is strong language, but true. None of us could _live_ with an habitual truthteller; but thank goodness none of us has to.

Now the thing for YOU to do is to droop your tails and go home and crawl in a hole.  If any real lynching's going to be done it will be done in the dark, Southern fashion;

Why, you simple creatures, the weakest of all weak things is a virtue which has not been tested in the fire.

Well, then, says I, what's the use you learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?

Nada devem saber a meu respeito a não ser que tenham lido «As Aventuras de Tom Sawyer». Não faz mal. O livro foi escrito pelo senhor Mark Twain, e ele contava quase sempre a verdade.

Do right and you will be conspicuous.

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even      the undertaker will be sorry. —Pudd'nhead Wilson's      Calendar

Tom!, ¿cómo pudiste ser tan noble?

Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

Ä°nsan dürüstlüÄŸünün mimar? kendisi deÄŸildir.

Cumplamos la tarea de vivir de tal modo que cuando muramos, incluso el de la funeraria lo sienta

None of us could _live_ with an habitual truth-teller; but thank goodness none of us has to.

The man who speaks an injurious truth lest his soul be not saved if he do otherwise, should reflect that that sort of a soul is not strictly worth saving.