Quotes About Ethics

The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others.

A lawyer's dealings should be just and fair; Honesty shines with great advantage there.

Were there no heaven nor hell I should be honest.

My father was a businessman. We had discussions about honesty and dishonesty.

An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not.

Avoid dishonest gain: no price can recompence the pangs of vice.

Dally not with other folk's spouses or money.

When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.

Yeah," I said, "but you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude. Where shall we eat?

...I wish that I may never think the smiles of the great and powerful a sufficient inducement to turn aside from the straight path of honesty and the convictions of my own mind.

We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. We cannot afford to use methods of which we will be ashamed when we look back, when we say, '...we shouldn't have done that.'

Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that don't have brains enough to be honest.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.- Lucullus (Act III, scene 1)

The best of all lost arts is honesty

I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles the character of an "Honest Man."

Never separate the life you lead from the words you speak.

The smart employer looks not for perfection but for an explanation of how the consequences of a dishonorable act affected the candidate and others.

Find a strong glue and stick yourself to honesty! You shall feel like a wind, so light and so free!

Honesty defines self respect.

The entire perks that I need are to let me do my job with full honesty to my conscience.

You can't do a good deal with a bad guy. The dishonesty tax is too high and is not something you will factor into your side of the equation.

Honesty is the best insurance policy.

He was a man more concerned with the truth than his arrest quota, a philosophy that would often have him skate on thin ice with the higher ups.