Quotes About Integrity

So, if I lost all my money, you'd drop me tomorrow?' 'Yes, darling, I would. You can't say I'm not honest about it! I only like successful people. And you'll find that's true of nearly everybody - only most people won't admit it. They just say that really they "can't put up with Mary or Emily or Pamela any more! Her troubles have made her so bitter and peculiar, poor dear!

One should never go by what people say.

It takes so little to undermine public confidence in a man.

It is curious—but you cannot make a revolution without honest men.

A good conscience makes a sound sleeper

You and I have a principle in common. We do not approve of murder.

A man is responsible for his deeds, and not just the deeds, but for the consequences of those deeds, as well.

Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.

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

Will you be so kind, Mademoiselle, as to write down your permanent address on this piece of paper?' She complied. Her writing was clear and legible.

Every revolution has had its honest men. They are soon disposed of afterwards.

To deceive deliberately—that is one thing. But to be so sure of your facts, of your ideas and of their essential truth that the details do not matter—that, my friend, is a special characteristic of particularly honest persons.

I refuse to have my character improved.

You will not give away a lady's secret?

People are like that—not quite bad or quite good. I don't suppose I'm particularly straight myself—I have been because there hasn't been any temptation to be otherwise. But what I have got is plenty of courage and I'm loyal!

Being unspoiled and natural. You learn how to do it, and then you have to go on being it all the time. Just think of the hell of it—never to be able to chuck something, and say, 'Oh, for the Lord's sake stop bothering me.

I wonder, Miss Marple," I said suddenly, "if you were to commit a murder whether you would ever be found out." "What a terrible idea," said Miss Marple, shocked. "I hope I could never do such a wicked thing.

By the way, I should like to make it clear here and now that the story will not be a story of South Africa. I guarantee no genuine local colour -- you know the sort of thing -- half a dozen words in italic on every page. I admire it very much, but I can't do it.

No. It is always better to face the truth. It is no use evading unhappiness by tampering with facts.

Look here, Iris, you're in a tight place. But apart from anything else, there's such a thing as TRUTH. You can't play safe and take care of your own skin when it's a question of justice.

But, my friend, I am not an Anglo-Saxon. Why should I play the hypocrite?

Biarkan keadilan mengalir bagaikan air, dan kebenaran mengalir bagaikan arus yang kekal.

I mind my own business and I expect other people to mind theirs. I don't listen to gossip and tittle-tattle.

But I came to it at last through pursuing the rule I have just mentioned. And I was forced to recognize this: That every army and every navy and every police force has a certain number of traitors within its ranks, much as we hate to admit the idea.