Quotes About Integrity

God sells knowledge for labour - honour for risk.

Fame is something which must be won; honour is something which must not be lost.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them.

Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on? How then? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery, then? No. What is honour? A word.

No revenge is more honorable than the one not taken.

He that lives in a glass house must not throw stones.

We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out; only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is his humility.

Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.

Remember this: If you work for a man, in Heaven's name, work for him. If he pays you wages which supply you bread and butter, work for him; speak well of him; stand by the institution he represents. If put to a pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. If you must vilify, condemn and eternally disparage - resign your position, and when you are on the outside, damn to your heart's content, but as long as you are part of the institution do not condemn it.

It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

Reasons are whores.

Saint abroad, and a devil at home.

Every man is a hypocrite

Hypocrisy is the homage which vice renders to virtue.

In the split-second before someone prepares to answer a question, he will consciously or subconsciously evaluate what the best possible answer might be. For a truthful person, the best possible answer might omit some information. It might have a few extraneous details. But it will still offer the information requested.

I can only live in the world of truth, inasmuch as I'm able to be truthful with myself at any given point, on any given day.

If you go through your life being completely truthful, everybody will hate you, and something I deeply fear is being hated.

It's amazing how much you will forgive if the behavior is truthful.

As an actor, the only pressure I have is to just be truthful and to do my best work.

I want to be unique and original and truthful.

You have to be truthful and believable in whatever you do and that is the founding principle of acting.

I would never have told my father a lie. We were brought up to be very truthful. I would never lie today. It's impossible.