Quotes about Integrity

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.

You know you can't be a nice girl inside if you're a dirty slut outside

Loyalty in a critic is corruption.

Self-denial is not a virtue: it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.

How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?

A man vows, and yet will not east away the means of breaking his vow. Is it that he distinctly means to break it? Not at all; but the desires which tend to break it are at work in him dimly, and make their way into his imagination, and relax his muscles in the very moments when he is telling himself over again the reasons for his vow.

He has got no good red blood in his body, said Sir James. No. Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass, and it was all semicolons and parenthesis, said Mrs. Cadwallader.

Even much stronger mortals than Fred Vincy hold half their rectitude in the mind of the being they love best.

Indeed we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something irrespective of the beings who would suffer the wrong.

To point out other people's errors was a duty that Mr. Bulstrode rarely shrank from