The hard-boiled hero is committed to the concept of doing the honorable thing, no matter what the consequences. He is unable to define the
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Thomas Carlyle
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.
Christian Freidrich Hebbel
One lie does not cost you one truth but the truth.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The important thing is to stop lying to yourself. A man who lies to himself and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize
Jack Nicholson
There’s nothing in lying as far as I’m concerned. It’s always a manifestation of being afraid of something.
Chinese response to US government threats to ban them from California in 1852
In the important matters we are good men. We honor our parents; we take care of our children, we are industrious and peaceable; we
Harry Stein
Now in my fifties, I listen to the Girl Watchers and find myself invigorated by their moral clarity. In a frenzied age in which
Tom Morris
I’ve come to believe that etiquette is a broad domain of human behavior where ethics meets everyday life.
Anthony Trollope
You hardly know how he denies himself, and how he thinks of everybody near him. He is a gentleman all around and every inch.
Peter Mayle
He was a great one for good manners. I suppose nowadays he’d be considered very old-fashioned. Why’s that? He was a gent. You know,