Oscar Wilde Quotes

Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.

Sir, the gentleman soils the spot he stands on.

[Calvin Coolidge] ... is at bottom simply a cheap and trashy fellow, deficient in sense and almost devoid of any notion of honor—in brief, a dreadful little cad.

Your peers will respect you for your integrity and character, not your possessions.

I didn't take all the films that were offered, just those with dignity.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

I suspect that with men like General Petraeus, where honor means something - losing your life is secondary to losing your honor.

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.

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

What is left when honor is lost?

I'm more interested in being good than being famous.

Character is much easier kept than recovered.

Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have.

Honor is but an empty bubble.

Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor.

I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.

Ability without honor is useless.

It is better to be honourable than be honoured.

If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.

Only men of character are trusted.

I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.