Quotes About Integrity

The only gift I have," said Hull, "is the gift of remembering all kindnesses, and trusting those worthy of trust.

I believe you mean it now, but in the moment, when you're deciding what to tell me and what not to tell, I think you'll hold back the things I most want to know, if you're afraid that knowing will cause me harm.

The people in the King's city [...] thought that these highvalley folk lived like animals. But in truth these villagers lived pure human life. they needed each other to survive, and knew it. They had no conspiracies and no secrets, no ambitions and no feuds. They couldn't afford the luxury of treating any man or woman or child as expendable.

If I could make my heart hard, said Alvin, I'd be a worse man, but a happier one.

You can achieve the greatest things in the world, but if it is at the cost of your marriage or family, it is worth nothing.

Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

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

I won't tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world's voice, or the voice of society. They matter a good deal. They matter far too much. But there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely—or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. You have that moment now. Choose!

I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.

And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

Her trust makes me faithful, her belief makes me good.

Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable

I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.

True friends stab you in the front

When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.

To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

Circumstances should never alter principles!

If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)

Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.

He hadn't a single redeeming vice.

The supreme vice is shallowness.