Expediency Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

Principle is ever my motto, no expediency.

— Benjamin Disraeli

A principle isn't a principle until it costs you something.

— William Bernbach

It's not a principle unless it costs you something.

— Tobias Lutke

Principle is OK up to a certain point, but principle doesn't do any good if you lose.

— Dick Cheney

A principle is a principle and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We…

— Mahatma Gandhi

If principle is good for anything, it is worth living up to.

— Benjamin Franklin

The reason why principles are so important is because principles make life predictable.

— Myles Munroe

Here is a good principle: If need be, give up your principles!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“A principle is a set of philosophical ideas and life lessons that are combined and compressed together to provide a general guideline in order…

— Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

If you're familiar with a principle you don't have to be familiar with all of its applications.

— Henry David Thoreau

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The principle is so perfectly general that no particular application of it is possible.

— George Polya