Quotes About Integrity

Many a gentleman lives well upon a soft head, who would find a heart of the same quality a very great drawback.

Let no man turn aside, even so slightly, from the broad path of honor, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means. Those that cannot, are bad; and may be counted so at once, and left alone.

Brag is good dog, holdfast is better!

if you deserve it, and repent in action—not in words. I want no more words.

He is an honorable, obstinate, truthful, high-spirited, intensely prejudiced, perfectly unreasonable man.

Evil communications corrupt good manners.

Mr. Carton," she answered, after an agitated pause, "the secret is yours, not mine, and I promise to respect it.

Whatsume'er the failings on his part, Remember reader he were that good in his hart.

He says, no varnish can hide the grain of the wood, and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.

But Rosa soon made the discovery that Miss Twinkleton didn't read fairly. She cut the love-scenes, interpolated passages in praise of female celibacy, and was guilty of other glaring pious frauds.

He was simply and staunchly true to his duty alike in the large case and in the small. So all true souls ever are. So every true soul ever was, ever is, and ever will be. There is nothing little to the really great in spirit.

In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong. I had had no intercourse with the world at that time, and I imitated none of its many inhabitants who act in this manner. Quite an untaught genius, I made the discovery of the line of action for myself.

I resolved to tell my guardian that I doubted Orlick being the right sort of man to fill a post of trust at Miss Havisham's. 'Why of course he is not the right sort of man, Pip,' said my guardian, comfortably satisfied beforehand on the general head, 'because the man who fills the post of trust never is the right sort of man.

She was truest to them in the season of trial, as all the quietly loyal and good will always be.

Don't judge me by a little thing like this. In little things, I am a little thing myself — I always was. But in great things, I hope not; I don't mean to boast, but I hope not!

Ask no questions, and you'll be told no lies.

Conscience is a dreadful thing when it accuses man or boy;

Dear me, dear me,' replied a testy voice, 'I am very sorry for it, but what am I to do? I can't build it up again. The chief magistrate of the city can't go and be a rebuilding of people's houses, my good sir. Stuff and nonsense!' 'But the chief magistrate of the city can prevent people's houses from having any need to be rebuilt, if the chief magistrate's a man, and not a dummy—can't he, my lord?' cried the old gentleman in a choleric manner.

In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong. I

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If you can't get to be oncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked.

Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more.

If you bring the boy back with his head blown to bits by a musket, don't look to me to put it together again.

Blameless as I was, and knew that I was, in reference to any wrong she could possibly suspect me of, I shrunk before her strange eyes, quite unable to endure their hungry lustre.