Jonas Armstrong Quotes

I definitely would say, by sixth grade, I was a professional shoplifter - and not because I wanted to. I'm not going out to shoplift earrings or clothes or shoes like the average teenager. I was shoplifting frozen dinners at a grocery store.

I would never want to disrespect my beliefs. There are certain, obviously different, areas you wouldn't go. It's not congruent to who I am as a person, and it would be insincere, and it wouldn't be based on truth.

In day-to-day life, you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term, it always pays off to be ethical.

Never in my life did I steal a penny that didn't belong to me.

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.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

Once you start lying, you get kind of comfortable. You start believing it. Especially if you truly believe you didn't really cheat because you were doing what everybody else was doing.

I'm just doing what my conscience asks me to do.

I came from a socially deprived background when I was 15, 16 years old, but one thing I knew was one - you don't abuse a policeman, and two - you don't steal things.

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

But rarely have I made choices that made me feel I was really compromising what I believe.

I don't steal things. I'm rich.

There's nothing I've done which I'm ashamed of or I thought was actually bad.

At the end of the day, I'm not some evil guy.

I got caught stealing when I was a kid from the local bodega right across the street from where we lived. I tried to steal a big bag of Red Hot Dollars. And I swear, I was about 7 years old and the bag was bigger'n me.

If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not feel the loss, or it may prevent him from using the money badly. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself dishonest.

Conscience? Great souls do not worry themselves with such little details

I am convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile.

I haven't shoplifted since I was 13.

My moral compass is strong.

Playing nice isn't really something that's in my vocabulary. I just do what I think is right.

Conscience. Conscience is the ultimate measure of a man.

He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.

Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.

It is as easy for most of us to keep from stealing our dinners as it is to digest them, and there is quite as much voluntary morality involved in one process as the other.