Quotes About Integrity

You don't have to destroy me. Do you? ...

The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something that you know; and not before; and not too damned much after. Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it.

I think perhaps I can too. But I try not to borrow. First you borrow. Then you beg.

He did not care for the lying at first. He hated it. Then later he had come to like it. It was part of being an insider but it was a very corrupting business.

don't ask me a lot of questions if you don't like the answers

In those days we did not trust anyone who had not been in the war, but we did not completely trust anyone.

I never trust frank and simple people whose stories hold together.

If he lived by a lie he should try to die by it

I wonder why he jumped, the old man thought. He jumped almost as though to show me how big he was. I know now, anyway, he thought. I wish I could show him what sort of man I am. But then he would see the cramped hand. Let him think I am more man than I am and I will be so. I wish I was the fish, he thought, with everything he has against only my will and my intelligence.

Remember that he who conquers himself is greater than the one who conquers a city.

Lie life through its fullest

Too much honor destroys a man quicker than too much of any other fine quality.

What are you made of? What you love. And steel added.

You know I'm no squealer, Harry.' 'You're a rummy. But no matter how rum dumb you get, if you ever talk about that, I promise you.' 'I'm a good man,' he said. 'You oughtn't to talk to me like that.' 'They can't make it fast enough to keep you a good man,' I told him. But I didn't worry about him any more because who was going to believe him?

The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something that you know; and not before; and too damned much after. Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it.

The bullfight is a Spanish institution; it has not existed because of the foreigners and tourists, but always in spite of them and any step to modify it to secure their approval, which it will never have, is a step towards its complete suppression.

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Any form of betrayal can be final. Dishonesty can be final. Selling out is final. But you are just talking now. Death is what is really final.

You had to trust the people you worked with completely or not at all, and you had to make decisions about the trusting.

He talked of his work as something altogether apart from himself. There was nothing conceited or braggartly about him.

But should a man carry out impossible orders knowing what they lead to?

How could a woman know that you meant nothing that you said; that you spoke only from habit and to be comfortable? After he no longer meant what he said, his lies were more successful with women than when he had told them the truth.

Férfit meg szabad ölni. Megátalkodni is szabad. De megsérteni nem.

Con not, that thou be not conned.