Andy Garcia Quotes

The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying.

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

I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception.

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

I have a sensible set of values that tell me to never lie.

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.

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

I never really tell lies, and sometimes it has worked against me.

I don't cheat.

Life tests our willingness, in ways large and small, to tell the truth.

If I have one wish which is greater than another, it is, if I had the power, to make men do right; to make them stop their swearing, their lying, their deceiving, to stop trying to injure the innocent, and begin to be honest and upright in all their dealings with one another and honor the name of the Deity.

I'll tell you something that's completely true - you can, as a man, obtain everything you want with the truth. If you lie, first of all you've got to be a very good lying actor, which is tres difficile. And it's going to give you poison inside the body.

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

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

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.

Simple honesty of purpose in a man goes a long way in life, if founded on a just estimate of himself and a steady obedience to the rule he knows and feels to be right.

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

Never lie when the truth is more profitable.

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

Be honest. Be honest with yourself, be honest with, you know, your fellow politicians. This is a rare quality of politicians.

The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

Don't lie if you don't have to.