R. A. Salvatore Quotes

I think you can be an honest person and lie about any number of things.

This above all,--to thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

Living on hypocrisy is not a healthy diet for patriots.

It might be said that the pose of absolute honesty is the most dishonest one of all.

I think my moral ground is very much intact.

Better a child should be ignorant of a thousand truths than have consecrated in its heart a single lie.

Integrity can be neither lost nor concealed nor faked nor quenched nor artificially come by nor outlived, nor, I believe, in the long run, denied.

We manifest character when self-sacrifice for the sake of our principles becomes more important than compromise for the sake of popularity.

It is better to die than to tell a lie

Integrity is the core of our character.

Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.

Remember that what's right isn't always popular, and what's popular isn't always right.

A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.

Don't compromise your principles.

Don't pretend that you can just be oblivious to politics. You can't. What you never do is break your personal code. Have a code and keep it. You should never compromise what your priorities are.

Integrity is not a given factor in everyone's life. It is a result of self-discipline, inner trust, and a decision to be relentlessly honest in all situations in our lives.

My moral standing is lying down.

An entirely honest man, in the severe sense of the word, exists no more than an entirely dishonest knave: the best and the worst are only approximations of those qualities. Who are those that never contradict themselves? yet honesty never contradicts itself: Who are those that always contradict themselves? yet knavery is mere self-contradiction. Thus the knowledge of man determines not the things themselves, but their proportions, the quan∣tum of congruities and incongruities.

Sir, what does it matter whom I serve, so long as I am right?

People do peculiar things in life and they do for whatever reason but I think one of the greatest crimes in life is when you lie.

We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought.

It is not enough that we are truthful; we must cherish and carry out high purposes to be truthful about.

Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.

Remember what Bogie and my mother both used to say: 'Character is the most important thing. All that matters is character!'

Stand up for your principles, but be a decent human being while you're doing it.