Quotes About Integrity

The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging him.

Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err.

There are men whose presence infuses trust and reverence.

To men who only aim at escaping felony, nothing short of the prisoner's dock is disgrace.

I trust you as holy men trust God; you could do nought that was not pure and loving, though the deed might pierce me unto death.

It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how comfortable or sacred that falsehood may appear.

Though you see a Church-man ill, yet continue in the Church still.

Vertue flies from the heart of a Mercenary man.

Lie not, neither to thyself, nor man, nor God. Let mouth and heart be one; beat and speak together, and make both felt in action. It is for cowards to lie.

A wise man needes not blush for changing his purpose.

Amongst good men two men suffice.

Hee wrongs not an old man that steales his supper from him.

Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number.

For the greatest fool and rascal in creation there is yet a worse condition; and that is, not to know it, but to think himself a respectable man.

It really is true that an orator is simply a good man who speaks well.

It's so easy to find someone who would walk around me like a shadow and do everything for me and never be tempted by other men, so obviously I'm not attracted by that type.

A man who fights for coin is loyal only to his purse.

...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword." "...a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.

Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been.

A true man does what he will, not what he must.

...Ned always said that the man who passes the sentence should swing the blade, though he never took any joy in the duty. But I would, oh, yes.

I've had affairs. But I'm not the sort of man who has 10,000 affairs.

We ought to be interested in that darkest and most real part of a man in which dwell not the vices that he does not display, but the virtues that he cannot.

Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.