Quotes About Integrity

Did he just ask us to lie to a senior officer?" I asked. "Yup," said Leslie. "Just checking," I said. So we spent the rest of the afternoon bearing false witness in separate interview rooms.

I'm much more interested in what an actor has to say about something substantial and important than who they're dating or what clothes they're wearing or some other asinine, insignificant aspect of their life.

Gallant gestures come easy when your purse is filled with gold.

Do you really think that you're some sort of superior creature? Do you think that your ability to make money, to steal and lie and murder, places you above normal men?

Tell the truth. If you tell the truth all the time you don't have to worry three months down the line about what you said three months earlier. Truth is always the truth. You won't have to complicate your life by trying to cover up.

I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it.

You're mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good i know of everyone

You can't just say I love you, you have to LIVE I love you

I know that a man who tries to convert me to any cause is actually at work on his own conversion, unless he is looking for funds under the mask of some fancied nobility.

Immorality may be fun, but it isn't fun enough to take the place of one hundred percent virtue and three square meals a day.

The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.

Calumnies are answered best with silence.

Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold,And almost every vice—almighty gold.

Be not ashamed of thy virtues honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.

He wil sooner lose his best friend, then his least jest.

If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.

only ever stole from those who had money to spare and remained adamant that crime need not involve thuggery: the Pinkertons found it astonishing that "throughout his career he never used a revolver or jeopardized the life of a victim.

Lying is wrong, son, but if it serves a greater good, it's OK.

Ashenden admired goodness, but was not outraged by wickedness," wrote Maugham.

In wartime, the truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

the end, the difference between them is a matter of moral judgment: Gordievsky was on the side of the good; and Ames was on his own side.