Quotes About Integrity

have always acted in accordance with the dictates of my conscience.

What you've been saying. It's just words. It doesn't mean anything.

I'm afraid it hasn't occurred to me to have scruples" said Katherine

Women, Mademoiselle, are generous. If they can render a service to one who has rendered a service to them, they will do it. I was generous once to you, Mademoiselle. When I might have spoken, I held my tongue.

You've heard the truth and you can take it or leave it as far as I am concerned.

He has a clear-cut, black and white mind, with an exact knowledge of his own feeling—and a complete disregard for outside pressure.

To hide the truth, never does it avail, madame! Be brave and tell him everything.

Ik bewonderde Elsa Greer omdat ze durf had, omdat ze vechten kon, omdat ze standhield tegen haar kwelgeesten en zich nooit liet intimideren! Maar Caroline Crale bewonderde ik omdat ze niet vocht, omdat ze zich terug trok in haar wereld van getemperd licht en halftinten. Men heeft haar nooit kunnen verslaan, omdat ze ook nooit gestreden heeft.

What I say is a gentleman's a gentleman even if he does drive a tractor.

It's second nature to make the best of yourself. I'd made a point of that at school and onwards, boasted about things a bit, said a few things stretching the truth a bit I wasn't ashamed of it. Uriah something his name was, always going about being humble and rubbing his hands, and actually planning and scheming behind that humility. I didn't want to be like that." -Mike Rogers Endless Night by Agatha Christie

Some people might have scrupulously removed themselves from earshot of a private conversation. But not Hercule Poirot. He had no scruples of that kind.

Shall I neglect you a little?' suggested Tommy. 'Take other women about to night clubs. That sort of thing.' 'Useless,' said Tuppence. 'You would only meet me there with other men. And I should know perfectly well that you didn't care for the other women, whereas you would never be quite sure that I didn't care for the other men. Women are so much more thorough.

If all men were just, there would be no need of valor.

Never hurt a woman unless you absolutely and positively mean it" - James "The Buck" Bukowitz

People have a hard time ignoring a person who speaks their mind let alone forgive them for doing something they could never do

Sometimes one has to go against what is proper in order to do what is right

Start cutting corners on whatever it is you do and those corners will seek to get even with you sooner or later

To deny expression is a form of lying and a mode of suicide.

Voicing one's virtues is the deadliest of vices

We cannot simply allow the treacherous few determine the fates of themany. At such times, the virtuous should be held to equalaccountability of the vile for their inactions

Ceeb maaha inad imtixaan dhacdo, balse waxa ceeb ah ku qanaca caadeysiga dhicitaanka joogtada ah.

Waxaad qiimo iyo sharaf ku lahaan doontaa goobaha shaqada, kolba sida aad u tayeyso xirfada iyo aqoonta aad xanbaarsan tahay.

You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There's always hope. -from Postcards from No Man's Land

Celebrity, to me, is not a thing to seek.