Quotes About Integrity

Why would I trust a man with my business, if he could not manage his own?

Oh, you are not disappointing," Henry says. "But the moment you are, I will let you know.

Henry glares at him. "I will say this for you. You stick by your man." "I have never had anything from the cardinal other than kindness. Why would I not?

Even in the republic of virtue you need a man who will shovel up the shit.

As More says, it hardly makes a man a hero, to agree to stand and burn once he is chained to a stake. I have written books and I cannot unwrite them. I cannot unbelieve what I believe. I cannot unlive my life.

You must, of course. Robespierre doesn't lie or cheat or steal, doesn't get drunk, doesn't fornicate—overmuch. He's not a hedonist or a mainchancer or a breaker of promises." Danton grinned. "But what's the use of all this goodness? People don't try to emulate you. Instead they just pull the wool over your eyes.

That's the point of a promise, he thinks. It wouldn't have any value, if you could see what it would cost you when you made it.

we are not priests. We don't want their sort of confession. We are lawyers. We want the truth little by little and only those parts of it we can use.

If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?

you cannot tell people just part of the tale and then stop, or just tell them the parts you choose.

In truth you cannot separate them, your public being and your private self.

You know I'm not a man with whom you can have inconsequential conversations. I cannot split myself into two, one your friend and the other the king's servant.

He understands honor but does not boast of his own. . . He has studied the world without despising it. He understands the world without rejecting it. He has no illusions but he has hopes. He does not sleepwalk through his life. His eyes are open, and his ears for sounds others miss.

It is the glory of the men who have worked with Cromwell that instead of merely cursing the vermin they have patched, they have mended, they have stretched a point to replace a gnawed vowel; they have been ready to substitute a digested phrase with a clause that will help the crown. . .

Vere dignum et justum est, aequum et salutare.

Cromwell. I am not such a hard man that I don't see how you are left. Do you know what I say? I say I don't know one man in England who would have done what you have done, for a man disgraced and fallen. The king says so. Even him, Chapuys, the Emperor's man, he says, you cannot fault what's-he-called. I say, it's a pity you ever saw Wolsey. It's a pity you don't work for me." "Well," he says, "we all want

Let us say, his will is convinced, but not his conscience.

Usually he is the soul of courtesy. But if you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?

You will see that it is not in your interests to protect the gentlemen who share your sin. Because if the position were reversed, believe me, they would not spare a thought for you.

Here's a bargain. You can take him to a sermon if you don't take him to a brothel.

In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or running a small business - people rely on confidential communications to do their jobs. We count on the space of trust that confidentiality provides. When someone breaches that trust, we are all worse off for it.

Saccha hai yahan kangal, to Beimaan hai malamal (Here the honest person is poor, the corrupt people are rich)

Mark this! who lives beyond his means Forfeits respect, loses his sense; Where?er he goes, through the seven births, All count him knave: him women hate.

Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.