Quotes About Integrity

He who puts on a religious demeanor abroad to gain himself a great name among men, and at the same time lives like an atheist at home, shall at the last be unmasked by God, and presented before all the world for a most detestable hypocrite.

Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concernments.

No one should approach the temple of science with the soul of a money changer.

Ich erzähle dir das deshalb, damit du heute schon weißt, daß alles seinen Preis hat. Wenn du eines Tages endlich weißt, was du willst, dann wirst du auch konsequent sein müssen. Und du wirst eben nicht nur hart arbeiten müssen - das sowieso -, sondern du wirst auch deine Katzen ersäufen müssen. Und ich kenne keinen, der etwas gilt, der darum herumgekommen ist. Jeder von denen hat mal seine sechs Katzen ersäuft.

I am sorry for only two things. These two things are: I am sorry that I have mistreated some few animals in my life time and I am sorry that I am unable to murder the whole darned human race

The foundation of morality to have done, once and for all, with lying.

Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she encourages him to love her while she doesn't love him at all. Then, when she sees him suffering, her remorse sets in, and she does what she can to repair the wrong.

The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.

Thoroughly convinced of the impossibility of his own suit, a high resolve constrained him not to injure that of another. This is a lover's most stoical virtue, as the lack of it is a lover's most venial sin.

The real sin ma'am, in my mind lies in thinking of ever wedding with a man you don't love honest and true.

Having begun to love you, I love you for ever - in all changes, in all disgraces, because you are yourself.

If I really seem vain, it is that I am only vain in my ways—not in my heart. The worst women are those vain in their hearts, and not in their ways.

Was once lost always lost really true of chastity?

How would you draw the line between women with something and women with nothing in them?

Distinction doesn't consist in the facile use of a contemptible set of conventions, but in being numbered among those whose are true, and honest, and just, and pure, and lovely, and of good report

Let there be truth at last,/ Even if despair.

What's right week days is right Sundays

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

for unfortunately the person most dogged in the belief in a false reputation is always that one, the possessor, who has the best means of knowing that it is not true.

Was once lost always lost really true of chastity? she

Why do you... keep tantalizing me? I tell you, Tess, I'd take you for a flirt, For a sit you could catch, If I didn't know just honest and pure you are.

Yes,' he said; 'and not a dishonourable one. What held me back was just that one thing — a sense of morality that perhaps, madam, you did not give me credit for.' The latter words were spoken with a mien and tone of pride.

Matrimonial ambition is such an honourable thing.

Next day the weather was bad, but she trudged on, the honesty, directness, and impartiality of elemental enmity disconcerting her but little.