Quotes About Ethics

No one has any license to brag because he is honest. That should be natural instinct and, besides, if you are not, they put you in jail. Honesty is merely a form of insurance.

I am a very conscientious golfer. I count every stroke. I learned to play that way. That is the only way I can play. It taught me to be honest. There is no greater virtue than honesty.

What's the news? None, my lord, but that the world's grown honest, Then is doomsday near.

The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.

What is more arrogant than honesty?

Honesty is the best policy ; a policy is, after all, a strategy for living in the polis in the city.

We may argue eloquently that 'Honesty is the best Policy' - unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously ceases to be honesty.

I have tried if I could reach that great resolution . . . to be honest without a thought of Heaven or Hell.

The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written you have to stand by it. You may have said it to see whether you believed it or not.

It's better to be sworn to an honest fool than to a lying scholar

It's honest to admit you'll kill someone because you hate them.

Birds don't need bridges to cross precipices and honourable men with honesty wings to cross precipices of slander.

Watergate left Washington a city ravaged by honesty.

fishing teaches a stern morality; inculcates a remorseless honesty.

Dishonesty is a forsaking of permanent for temporary advantages.

Since in the long run deception is likely to be found out, your character had better not only seem good, but be it.

Nothing is quite honest that is not commercial, but not everything commercial is honest.

As a governor and senator, John Chafee set the standard for honesty and decency that the rest of us on our best days could only dream to emulate.

In business sharp practice sometimes succeeds, but in art honesty is not only the best but the only policy.

A nation's domestic and foreign policies and actions should be derived from the same standards of ethics, honesty and morality which are characteristic of the individual citizens of the nation.

Honesty will be found on every experiment, to be the best and only true policy; let us then as a Nation be just.

I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.

The view that honesty is something, and even a virtue, belongs, it is true, to those private opinions which are forbidden in this age of public opinions.

Strict honesty was the policy of most of them; although there were a few who were said to 'find anything before 'tis lost' and to whom findings were keepings.