Jeanne Moreau Quotes

A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.

I learned one thing in Watergate: I was well-intentioned but rationalized illegal behavior. You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

A woman of honor should never suspect another of things she would not do herself.

A clear conscience is a sure card.

Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded.

I've never lied. I think I've lived a moral life.

You can't have integrity for breakfast, but try and keep it because it is perhaps the single most important word that defines not just writers but all human beings.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.

I've tried to do away with lying in my life in the last few years, but it's hard.

With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt.

Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.

Whenever you do a thing, tho' it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you and act accordingly.

I try to act as a man of character if no one is watching or if the world is watching.

My moral compass is strong.

In my heart, I never called one wrong.

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

I never did anything dishonest.

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.

Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

In just about every area of society, there's nothing more important than ethics.

Character is that quality of mind which makes truth-telling instinctive rather than strange.