Groucho Marx Quotes

Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand.

I thank God that I left office the same way I came in: with integrity.

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

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

If you're honest about things, people will trust you, even if you're a bad guy. That says something about where we are and who we are as people.

Dishonesty, lack of integrity catches up with you.

It is hard to say which is the greatest fool: he who tells the whole truth, or he who tells no truth at all. Character is as necessary in business as in trade. No man can deceive often in either.

Axl [Rose] is not the type of person to make something up. So I was sort of shocked that he went that direction. That caused me a lot of problems.

Your character holds the key to your trustworthiness.

Since in the long run deception is likely to be found out, your character had better not only seem good, but be it.

Rakes are more suspicious than honest men.

You know, at the end of the day, the only thing you have is trust and honor in this world. That's all you have. All you have is your reputation built on trust and your personal honor. When you don't have that anymore, well, you know, there you go. Trust was broken.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

The greatest asset, even in this country, is not oil and gas. It's integrity. Everyone is searching for it, asking, 'Who can I do business with that I can trust?'

Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.

If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.

Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one.

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

I'm honest, I'm fair and I'm sure, as time progresses, those who don't believe that will find it to be true.

If anybody ever dares to compare Bob Dole to Clinton, then they're comparing a criminal to an honest man.

I had made my reputation on integrity.

Only men of character are trusted.

When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.

Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

No public man can be just a little crooked.