Tad Williams Quotes

I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances.

Living on hypocrisy is not a healthy diet for patriots.

The virtuous will be sure to speak uprightly; but those whose speech is upright may not be virtuous.

If the Coastal Republic had believed in the existence of virtue, it could at least have aspired to hypocrisy.

A hero must be honorable, must have honor. And you can't have honor if you're a liar. There is no honor in lying.

A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.

After all, why be good? How many will actually believe it of us?

I think you can be an honest person and lie about any number of things.

Ethical man: A Christian holding four aces.

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

Well, when I was a kid, if my father was witnessing something that he thought was particularly outrageous or he was looking at some sort of a question that he thought lacked proper definition, he would say, Well, at least Jesse James had the honor to wear a mask.

Virtue is the first title of nobility.

There is hardly that person to be found who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense, than honesty and virtue.

For he who is honest is noble, Whatever his fortunes or birth.

How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party

Our probity is not less at the mercy of fortune than our property.

Fewer possess virtue, than those who wish us to believe that they possess it.

Worthy of honor is he who does no injustice, and more than twofold honor, if he not only does no injustice himself, but hinders others from doing any.

It is not right or manly to lie even about Satan.

Virtue is not photogenic.

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

Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness.

There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules