Quotes About Integrity

I have rather an unwholesome weakness for policemen.

The only Christian work is good work well done.

After all, he thinks conscience is a sort of vermiform appendix. Chop it out and you'll feel all the better.

People who seek to serve the community end up falsifying their work, she wrote, whether the work is writing a novel or baking bread, because they are not single- mindedly focused on the task at hand. But if you serve the work— if you perform each task to its utmost perfection— then you will experience the deep satisfaction of craftsmanship and you will end up serving the community more richly than you could have consciously planned.

honestly--then dishonestly.

As the Head of a woman's college she must, thought Harriet, have had a distasteful task; for she looked as though the word 'compromise' had been omitted from her vocabulary; and all statesmanship is compromise.

The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalise false statements made in error, we open up the way for false statements by intention. And a false statement of fact, made deliberately, is the most serious crime a scientist can commit.

Dorothy L. Sayers

of my own honesty.

I'm sure one should do one's own job, however trivial, and not persuade one's self into doing somebody else's, however noble.

Never complain, never explain.

Never throw mud. You may miss your mark, but you will have dirty hands.

Should they whisper false of you, never trouble to deny. Should the words they say be true, weep and storm and swear they lie!

When I was young and bold and strong, Oh, right was right, and wrong was wrong!

Now I know the things I know, and do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you.

Honest, I won't ever do it again. I'll go straight, after this. I'll never go to bed again, if I can only sleep now.

The first thing a principle does is to kill somebody. --Gaudy Night

What do you want me to do, Peter? Chuck the ball back to me if it runs out of the circle. Not obviously. Just exercise your devastating talent for keeping to the point and speaking the truth. That sounds easy. It is--for you. That's what I love you for. --Gaudy Night

I see myself as an instrument of justice, not a dispenser of it. -Detective Thanet.

There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth.

This is how the devil works with temptation—little compromises. King David committed adultery with Bathsheba, murdered Uriah, and lied to his people. And it began with a small, lingering, lustful look. We should pray, "Lord, lead me away from even the little things, because that's how the big things start.

The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks.

The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks. How often have you been presented with an apparently rational explanation of something that works in all respects other than one, which is just that it is hopelessly improbable? Your instinct is to say, 'Yes, but he or she simply wouldn't do that.

Many respectable physicists said that they weren't going to stand for this -- partly because it was a debasement of science, but mostly because they didn't get invited to those sort of parties.