Quotes About Integrity

Pray we for the Clergy; that they may rightly divide, that they may rightly walk; that while they teach others, themselves may learn.

Avoid, which many grave men have not done, words taken from sacred subjects and from elevated poetry: these we have seen vilely prostituted. Avoid too the society of the barbarians who misemploy them.

Let a gentleman be known to have been cheated of twenty pounds, and it costs him forty a-year for the remainder of his life.

Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend: such nails are then thrown into the dust or into the furnace.

Principles do not much influence the unprincipled, nor mainly the principled.

Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

At the time I thought what I had with you and your mother was better than nothing. But if you can't tell the truth to the people you care about the most, eventually you stop being able to tell the truth to yourself.

Sometimes the most ruthless heart speaks the most truth

It's always better to live the truth than to live a lie.

So you decided to help us by killing the guy we were talking to?" Clary demanded "Because you thought he had a shady past? Who- who does that? It doesnt make any sense.

I do not believe you can threaten people into goodness." - Jem Carstairs

Emma —" "I'm calling." Emma lunged for her phone. "No!" Julian said, forcefully enough to stop her. "You know we can't tell anyone. About Mark —" "You're not going to bleed to death in a car for Mark!" "No," he said, looking at her. His eyes were eerily green-blue, the only bright color in the dark interior of the car. "You're going to fix me.

Goodness, real goodness, has it's own sort of cruelty to it.

Simon snorted. "If you ever meet the man who could take advantage of Isabelle, you'll have to let me know. I'd like to shake his hand. Or run away from him very fast, I'm not sure which.

I'm pure at heart. It repels the dirt.

One can give up many things for love, but one should not give up oneself.

I screwed her over. I didn't want to see her screwed over by someone else.

You could know a man not by what his friends said about him, but by how he treated his servants.

Looking for an entirely reliable informant is like looking for a chaste mistress.

The choices we make, make us.

Making promises you can't keep is worse than making no promises at all.

You have ruthlessness in your bones and ice in your heart, Clarissa. Don't tell me any differently.

Jace," she said. "Why are you doing this to me?" "Because you're lying to me. And you're lying to yourself." Jace's eyes were blazing, and even though his hands were stuffed into his pockets, she could see that they were knotted into fists.