Noel Coward Quotes

People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.

A Man Without Honor is Worse than Dead.

The notion that public service requires men and women of good character now seems quaint.

Bad company corrupts good character.

By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.

If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

The more men value money the less they value virtue.

Base thy life on principle, not on rules.

'Character Doesn't Count' has become a de facto G.O.P. motto. 'Virtue Doesn't Matter' might be another. But character does count, and virtue does matter, and Trump's shortcomings prove it daily.

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.

People have no morals, I swear to God. The things that people do for ratings! It's unforgivable.

When the Way is lost there is virtue. When virtue is lost there is benevolence. When benevolence is lost there is righteousness. When righteousness is lost there are rituals.

Ethics, decency and morality are the real soldiers

I think I'm a pretty moral guy, a very moral guy, but I'm not perfect.

Books follow morals, and not morals books.

Our ideals are our better selves.

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.

Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.

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