Quotes About Integrity

I've been very lucky, from the beginning. I've found that as long as you're fundamentally good - as long as you're not being bad to people - people give you a lot of room to be yourself, because being yourself is being honest. And that's what people want to see.

I don't think that Washington is a fundamentally bad or corrupt place.

I think my characters are all fairly fundamentally decent, even if they have negative characteristics.

I was the head of fundraising for the Women's March, and I chose not to take money from corporations.

Those who embezzle public funds should be ready to face the consequences.

If you want to really know what your friends and family think of you die broke, and then see who shows up for the funeral.

I'm never going to write fart jokes, because I feel like I have a responsibility to the audience to give them good stuff. I should be able to come up with something funnier than any third-grade boy could think of.

I attribute my success to this:—I never gave or took an excuse.

Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head (not, how can I always do this right thing myself, but) how can I provide for this right thing to be always done?

secrets, Charley my mother whispered. They'll tear you apart.

Damn it all, it's the first duty of a soldier - it's the first duty of all Englishmen - to be able to tell a good lie in answer to a charge.

Fellows come in and tell the most extraordinarily gross stories—so gross that they will positively give you a pain. And yet they'd be offended if you suggested that they weren't the sort of person you could trust your wife alone with.

But to betray her with battalion... That is against decency, against Nature...And for him, Christopher tietjens, to come down to the level of the men you met here!

One's friends ought to believe that one is a gentleman. Automatically. That is what makes one and them in harmony. Probably your friends are your friends because they look at situations automatically as you look at them…

We were fitted neither for defeat nor for victory: we could be true to neither friend nor foe. Not even to ourselves!

I guess it is vanity that makes most of us keep straight, if we do keep straight, in this world.

How was it possible that the most honourable man she knew should be so overwhelmed by foul and baseless rumours? It made you suspect that honour had, in itself, a quality of the evil eye . . .

Indian believes they ain't but two sins... bein a coward... and turnin agin yer own kind.

Oh, when you get down to the licklog, just to be a good friend. To be consequent to those around me. I guess I can't see any virtue higher than that.

The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable.

Un homme de bien, un homme de bon sens, croit toujours ce qu'on lui dit et ce qu'il trouve dans les livres.

Science without conscience is only ruin of the soul.

She says it has nothing to do with what you look like, or what you have. It has only to do with what you think of, and what you do.

Naturally, Jessie giggled again. "She says it has nothing to do with what you look like, or what you have. It has only to do with what you think of, and what you do.