Quotes About Integrity

Besides, if Hans came here, he might ask me to let him have some flour on credit, and that I could not do. Flour is one thing, and friendship is another, and they should not be confused. Why, the words are spelled differently, and mean quite different things. Everyone can see that.

There was something in his face that made one trust him at once. All the candour of youth was there, as well as youth's passionate purity. One felt that he had kept himself unspotted from the world.

You never say a moral thing, and you never do a wrong thing.

Es perfectamente monstruoso -dijo por fin- la costumbre que tiene la gente hoy día de hablar a espaldas de uno y decir de él cosas que son completa y absolutamente ciertas.

Don't be led astray into the paths of virtue.

Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you'll never be invited to a party.

The value of an idea has nothing to do with the honesty of the man expressing it.

It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.

the moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist, and becomes a dull or an amusing craftsman, an honest or a dishonest tradesman. He has no further claim to be considered as an artist.

Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.

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.

When the prurient and the impotent attack you, be sure you are right.

Wenn ein Mann alt genug ist, um unrecht zu tun, so sollte er alt genug sein, um recht zu tun.

Please, tell me the truth. The truth, who knows the truth? You've heart knows the truth.

Ah! that is the great thing in life, to live the truth.

The supreme vice is shallowness. Whatever is realised is right.

Conciencia y cobardía son lo mismo realmente, Basil. La conciencia es el nombre comercial de la empresa. Eso es todo

Moral grounds are always the last refuge of people who have no sense of beauty.

El único error imperdonable en el que incurren todas las personas verdaderamente buenas y que nunca pueden evitar es conversar de forma sincera

What a fuss people make about fidelity!

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. 

Manners before morals!

What fire does not destroy, it hardens.

No artist has ethical sympathies.