Quotes About Integrity

Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, bold I can meet, perhaps may turn his blow! But of all plagues, good Heavens, thy wrath can send, save, save, oh save me from the candid friend!

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Faithful are the wounds of a friend.

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her suitor.

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

...truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, --else it is none.

For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel, but do not dull thy palm with entertainment of each new-hatched unfledged comrade.

Where there is love there is no sin.

A man is only as good as what he loves

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my activities run into one another and they have their rise in my insatiable love of mankind

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

True friends are like diamonds; precious but rare. Fake friends are like fall leaves; found everywhere.

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.