Quotes About Integrity

The world is full of good people who do bad things!

There is no telling what a human character is. Until the test comes. To most of us the test comes early in life. A man is confronted quite soon with the necessity to stand on his own feet, to face dangers and difficulties and to take his own line of dealing with them. It may be the straight way, it may be the crooked way --- whichever it is, a man usually learns early just what he is made of.

What you do not understand is that there are things that cannot be bought.

No, I wouldn't. I wouldn't tell a soul.' 'People who use that phrase are always the last to live up to it.

You want beauty," said Hercule Poirot. "Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth I want. Always truth.

But it is not everything in life that has its ticket, so much. There are things that are not for sale.

In every profession and walk of life there is someone who is vulnerablle to temptation. (Mr. Barnes)

Hasting - There are times when it is one's duty to assert oneself.

I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty---to one's friends and one's family and one's caste.

I looked at her. Sheila was my girl--the girl I wanted--and wanted for keeps. But it wasn't any use having illusions about her. Sheila was a liar and probably always would be a liar. It was her way of fighting for survival--the quick easy glib denial. It was a child's weapon--and she'd probably never got out of using it. If I wanted Sheila, I must accept her as she was--be at hand to prop up the weak places. We've all got our weak places. Mine were different from Sheila's, but they were there.

It's as easy to utter lies as truth

For whom will a woman lie? Sometimes for herself, usually for the man she loves, always for her children.

Can one build an honest house on dishonest foundation? I do not know. But I do know that I want to try. (Edward Ferrier)

A woman should have a certain respect for herself and not submit to humiliation

What a person really is, is only apparent when the test comes—that is, the moment when you stand or fall on your own feet.

you've no idea of the agony of having your characters taken and made to say things that they never would have said, and do things that they never would have done. And if you protest, all they say is that it's 'good theatre.

A lot of additional pain and grief is caused by honesty," remarked Hercule Poirot.

And anyway, a man has no business to let himself be made a fool of by a woman. It's his own look out if he does.

The police, as servants of law, must be of a high order of integrity. For their word is perforce believed by the virtue of their profession.

Let me tell you this, Hastings. She would never forgive me if I let Alfred Inglethorp, her husband, be arrested now—when a word from me could save him!

You can always depend on an Englishman to play the game

There is nothing so dangerous for any one who has something to hide as conversation!

But facts are facts, and if one is proved to be wrong, one must just be humble about it and start again.

Of course,' said Miss Marple, 'a lot of people are stupid. And stupid people get found out, whatever they do. But there are quite a number of people who aren't stupid, and one shudders to think of what they might accomplish unless they had very strongly rooted principles.