Quotes About Integrity

Cops aren't heroes, Peabody. We just do the job.

It's engineering, man. Something might look bright and shiny on the outside, but the structure's what counts.

mostly suck—it's the law of averages, I figure, especially when you're on the job. Then you cross paths with people like that. Bad shit's happened to them, seriously bad shit, but they still come out of it decent.

And you figure because the two of you don't rub smooth she'll let things slide? Her eyes, colored to match her hair were round and sad. That's jerk thinking, Sumerset. Dallas'll work till she drops to do right by you, and I figure you know it. If somebody came after you, she'd step between and take the hit, because that's who she is. I figure you know that, too.

Cheating's cheap and it's lazy.

Cops are good at keeping secrets.

Do you think any of us go anywhere until we have the truth? Do you think there's peace without justice?" "No, I don't," Eve admitted, knowing it would always drive her.

There's a difference between right and regs sometimes. That's why regs can change, but right doesn't.

give details, professional courtesy

You'd never ask me to do something that wasn't right. There's a difference between right and regs sometimes. That's why regs can change, but right doesn't." And that, Eve realized, might be the long and short of why she'd made Peabody her partner.

We don't always do what's right, what's good. Not even for each other. But when it counts, down to the core of it, I believe we do exactly that. What's right and good for each other.

Do you . . ." "Do I steal, cheat, and smuggle now?" He turned and touched a hand to her face. "Oh, you'd hate that, wouldn't you? I almost wish I could say yes, then give it all up for you. I learned a long time ago that there are gambles more exciting for their legitimacy. And winning is so much more satisfying when you've dealt from the top of the deck.

It's engineering, man. Something might look bright and shiny on the outside, but the structure's what counts.

And what this small and, yes, treacherous, percentage of all the good men and women who work and risk and fight every single day has done to diminish that work, that risk, that fight, it weighs heavily.

You'd never ask me to do something that wasn't right. There's a difference between right and regs sometimes. That's why regs can change, but right doesn't.

The least I can do after standing you up tonight is make you feel manly.

Gossip needn't be false to be evil—there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.

Nobody should let cops like you slide. You think the badge is some sort of protection for you? Some sort of hammer you can toss around? It's your fucking responsibility, your goddamn duty, not your cushion and not your weapon.

But that was personal. No one, absolutely no one comes into our home and speaks to you that way.

knowing that, too, was one

It's just a promise, that's all. A promise, and you do your best not to break it. Like a lease. There you go! You know, Dallas, that's almost wise.

Will do cop work for sex? - It's become my daily mantra.

It seemed only fair.

We're not going to let a bad guy screw with one of us," Peabody said as they got on the elevator. "And that's a fact.