Quotes about Integrity
The lie, as a virtue, a principle, is eternal; the lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need, the fourth Grace, the tenth Muse, man's best and surest friend is immortal.
— Mark Twain
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
— Mark Twain
Be good and you will be lonely.
— Mark Twain
Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie — I found that out.
— Mark Twain
Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it.
— Mark Twain
You can't pray a lie.
— Mark Twain
Let us endeavor to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
— Mark Twain
I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.
— Mark Twain
Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let me label you as they may.
— Mark Twain
The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right.
— Mark Twain
Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
— Mark Twain
When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson