Edmond Rostand Quotes

Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.

Honor is self-esteem made visible in action.

That soul that can Be honest is the only perfect man.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

Let honesty be as the breath of thy soul; then shalt thou reach the point of happiness, and independence shall be thy shield and buckler, thy helmet and crown; then shall thy soul walk upright, nor stoop to the silken wretch because he hath riches, nor pocket an abuse because the hand which offers it wears a ring set with diamonds.

Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

I have to be true to what I think because that's my whole career.

In matters of conscience that is the best sense which every wise man takes in before he hath sullied his understanding with the designs of sophisters and interested persons.

I never truckled. I never took off the hat to Fashion and held it out for pennies. I told them the truth. They liked it or they didn't like it. What had that to do with me? I told them the truth.

Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adorning.

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

The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as mere trimmings when once the actions have become a lie.

The glory of the good is in their consciences, and not in the tongues of men.

Honor is what you know about yourself.

I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.

Honour is external conscience, and conscience is inward honour.

Your friend is intellectually honourable," Jimmy's mother would say. "He doesn't lie to himself.

Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.

Her virtue and the conscience of her worth, That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won.

Honor is decency without vanity.

I won't lay down my principles for any kind of recognition or any kind of position or trying to be more famous. It's just not in me. I'd rather be a man. And then to have all this crazy stuff on my conscience.

Never, be argued out of your soul, never be argued out of your honor, and never be argued into believing that soul and honor do not run a terrible risk if you limp into life with the load of a debt on your shoulders.