Quotes About Integrity

Bond mistrusted anyone who tied his tie with a Windsor knot. It showed too much vanity. It was often the mark of a cad. Bond

It was the puritan in him that couldn't take it.

Some of his girls will dance for you. I will not suggest that they should entertain you more intimately. You must keep your sword sharp. There is a saying ``Once a King, always a King. But once a Knight is enough!

That was the end of the integrity of their love. The succeeding days were a shambles of falseness and hypocrisy, mingled with her tears and moments of animal passion to which she abandoned herself with a greed made indecent by the hollowness of their days.

Let his name be cleared and everyone else adjust their thinking. He had put in time, now they must do the work. His business was simple. Find Cecilia and love her, marry her and live without shame.

When there are no consequences, being wrong is simply a diversion.

Let the guilty bury the innocent, and let no one change the evidence

There was, in my view, an unwritten contract with the reader that the writer must honour. No single element of an imagined world or any of its characters should be allowed to dissolve on an authorial whim. The invented had to be as solid and as self-consistent as the actual. This was a contract founded on mutual trust.

Writers owed their readers a duty of care, of mercy.

In Leon's life, or rather, in his account of his life, no one was mean-spirited, no one schemed or lied or betrayed. Everyone was celebrated at least in some degree, as though it was a cause for wonder that anyone existed at all.

Her wish for a harmonious, organized world denied her the reckless possibilities of wrongdoing. Mayhem and destruction were too chaotic for her tastes, and she did not have it in her to be cruel.

Her purity of spirit would never be in doubt, though she moved through a blemished world.

self-interest and kindness were best not separated

El amor sufre luengo y es amable; el amor no envidia; el amor no se jacta, no es pomposo, no se comporta de una forma indecorosa, no busca su provecho, no se deja provocar, no medita maldades; se deleita no en la iniquidad, sino en la verdad...

In that time, moral standards were high in public life and so, therefore, was hypocrisy.

A country overwhelmed by evil has more dignity than one tripped up by fools.

Admiral Nimitz never raised his voice and I never heard him curse during the many years I served with him," wrote Lamar.

Are you out of your mind? It's not polite to lie to your best friend. It's a possibility.

If I lose control, you'll be the first to know. I'm quite perturbed by the idea.

You are not special. You don't get to not show up. You don't get to avoid difficult decisions. You get to climb into the muck with the rest of us. So, you want to be in charge, fine. Reach deep down, find a backbone, and handle your own shit. Otherwise, step down and make way for someone who would actually matter.

Say 'pop.' " "Pop?" "That was the sound of me pulling your head out of your ass. If you stick it back up there again, there is nothing I can do about it. This is the only lecture you'll ever get from me.

I know people who will gently persuade you to be forthcoming.

I can't share, Nevada. I won't.

I'm a bastard but even I don't kill my own people, unless it's absolutely necessary.