Quotes About Integrity

If every one of you was to clean before his own front door, all would be clean of cow flops.

Of course he'll bring no money. Nor never will. He's not the type to--accumulate. But it's a good name to have. And he's becoming a personality in the county. One never knows quite why this happens, eh? Not so much what a man does. More a matter of character.

Almost under his breath he said, "First threatenings an' now bribery. Bribery as I'm alive! Money for Judas, I reckon they'm thinking. Stand up in a court o' law agin an old friend. Worse'n Judas, for he did it on the quiet, like. An' for what? Thirty bits o' silver. An' I'm reckoning they wouldn't

They'd want for me to do un for twenty or ten. Tedn reasonable, tedn proper, tedn Christian, tedn right." There was a short pause. "Ten guineas down and ten guineas after the trial," said Garth. "Ha!" said Jud. "Just what I thought.

And gentlefolk never laugh at simplicity; they only laugh at pretence.

You may speak the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, but it all depends how you speak it! Got to be tactful, persuasive, throw yourself on the mercy and indulgence of the law. Be humble and innocent, not stiff-backed and defiant.

Tedn sense, tedn reasonable, tedn right, tedn proper, tedn true!

He felt righteous and unashamed. He decided to go to bed sober.

Essere gentili è il dovere di ogni inglese che si rispetti.

Tedn't right. Tedn't tidy. Tedn't fair. Tedn't clean. Tedn't good enough.

I may be a idiot, but most of the time, anyway, I tried to do the right thing, an dreams is just dreams, ain't they? So whatever else has happened, I am figgerin this: I can always look back an say, at least I ain't led no hum-drum life.

Well, so what? I may be a idiot, but most of the time, anyway, I tried to do the right thing—an dreams is jus dreams, ain't they? So whatever else has happened, I am figgerin this: I can always look back an say, at least I ain't led no hum-drum life. You know what I mean?

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

A small lie needs a bodyguard of bigger lies to protect it.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was meant to be wooed and won by youth.

I only believe in statistics that I doctored myself

You make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her.

A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.

The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative.

It is all true, or it ought to be; and more and better besides.

Perhaps we have been guilty of some terminological inexactitudes.

Resposibility is the price of greatness.