Stephen Leacock Quotes

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

Work hard to achieve integrity in your work and your relationships with the people you work with.

What Australians expect of leaders is a bit of integrity.

I stand by the principle of honesty, fair play, and trustworthiness.

I am not a cheater.

I'm a guy who is easy to get along with, and I'll put up with a lot of things. But not dishonesty.

If someone's lying about something small, you don't know what else they're lying about. I'm a big girl, I can handle the truth - even if it's not good news.

I work in a strange business, and 'trust' is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

And I'm afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust.

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

I'm okay if everything is honest and truthful and relatable. If it's fabricated and ill-motived, it's not good.

If a woman is dishonest, that kills it for me. I can't even talk to her anymore.

In Canada, things are very honest.

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

A lot of times when you keep it real with somebody, you can't expect them to keep it real with you.

I like honesty and fair play.

Honesty and integrity are by far the most important assets of an entrepreneur.

As a general thing, I have not 'duped the world' nor attempted to do so... I have generally given people the worth of their money twice told.

My father was a businessman. We had discussions about honesty and dishonesty.

I believe fundamental honesty is the keystone of business.

There's good and bad everywhere in any aspect in life. The only people who we can't really trust are politicians. Because those guys lie to everybody and constantly.

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

I think that that integrity is something that is important to voters.

The thing that I've learned, not just from writing comics but also from writing television programs like 'Law & Order,' is that you can fool some of the people some of the time - but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

You have to be up-front from the very beginning about what your expectations of the other person are, and you can't make any promises you don't intend to keep.